Patient specific modeling of the cardiovascular system

Abstract

The progress of mathematical modeling and image processing in medicine from the last decades have had an important impact in the development of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases using the simulations of blood flow and pressure evolution models in specific location of the heart or vessels, personalised with patient data. This method is expected to increase the efficiency and reduce the recovery time of the patient. In this paper, it is depicted the cardiovascular system and his pathology, the non-invasive technologies of investigation, as well as the multiscale models that couples the elements of the cardiovascular system. Finally, the results of a simulation with a variable elastance model of the heart initialized with patient data coupled with a Windkessel model for the coronary circulation with mean values from the literature.