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The human heart is a remarkably efficient and durable mechanical pump composed of very complex biologic materials. The field of cardiac biomechanics seeks to understand how the geometry, composition, structure, mechanical and electrical properties, and haemodynamic environment of the heart interact to produce known physiologic behavior, and to apply this knowledge to understand and modify responses appropriate to various disease processes affecting the heart.
The human heart is a remarkably efficient and durable mechanical pump composed of very complex biologic materials. The field of cardiac biomechanics seeks to understand how the geometry, composition, structure, mechanical and electrical properties, and haemodynamic environment of the heart interact to produce known physiologic behavior, and to apply this knowledge to understand and modify responses appropriate to various disease processes affecting the heart. Reviewing all that has been learned about heart biomechanics in a few paragraphs is clearly impossible. Rather underline that modern numerical cardiac biomechanics investigates cardiac function in both health and disease with special attention to the role of mechanics. It involves the mathematical modelling of cardio-vascular system's, particularly – cardiac tissues, the development of program packages based on the models proposed, and the methodology of the application of the obtained results in medicine. Thus, it is one of the most important fields in modern theoretical and clinical cardiology. Scientific investigations in this area provide a deeper understanding of fundamental laws related to the functioning of the cardio-vascular system. Hence, it helps in diagnosis, optimizes treatment and prognosis of cardio-vascular diseases.
- Speaker
- Prof Alexander Martynenko (Kharkov National University)
- Venue
- FN 185