Author:
Dang Alan B. C.,Guccione Julius M.,Mishell Jacob M.,Zhang Peng,Wallace Arthur W.,Gorman Robert C.,Gorman Joseph H.,Ratcliffe Mark B.
Abstract
Infarcted segments of myocardium demonstrate functional impairment ranging in severity from hypokinesis to dyskinesis. We sought to better define the contributions of passive material properties (stiffness) and active properties (contracting myocytes) to infarct thickening. Using a finite-element (FE) model, we tested the hypothesis that infarcted myocardium must contain contracting myocytes to be akinetic and not dyskinetic. A three-dimensional FE mesh of the left ventricle was developed with echocardiographs from a reperfused ovine anteroapical infarct. The nonlinear stress-strain relationship for the diastolic myocardium was anisotropic with respect to the local muscle fiber direction, and an elastance model for active fiber stress was incorporated. The diastolic stiffness ( C) and systolic material property (isometric tension at longest sarcomere length and peak intracellular calcium concentration, Tmax) of the uninfarcted remote myocardium were assumed to be normal ( C = 0.876 kPa, Tmax = 135.7 kPa). Diastolic and systolic properties of the infarct necessary to produce akinesis, defined as an average radial strain between −0.01 and 0.01, were determined by assigning a range of diastolic stiffnesses and scaling infarct Tmax to represent the percentage of contracting myocytes between 0% and 100%. As C was increased to 11 times normal ( C = 10 kPa) the percentage of Tmax necessary for akinesis increased from 20% to 50%. Without contracting myocytes, C = 250 kPa was necessary to achieve akinesis. If infarct stiffness is <285 times normal, contracting myocytes are required to prevent dyskinetic infarct wall motion.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology
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33 articles.
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