This paper proposes a mathematical model for vessel recruitment in the microvascular coronary network. The model is based on microvascular network units (MVNUs), where we define aMVNU as a portion of the microvascular network comprising seven generations of identical, parallel-arranged vessels (upstream arteries, large and small arterioles, capillaries, small and large venules, and downstream veins). The model implements a new mechanism to describe the variation in the number of MVNU in response to sudden variations of the local input pressure. In particular, it describes a recruitment mechanismdependent on distal pressure which operates in the coronary microcirculatory network even in maximally dilated conditions. Weapply the model to interpret data from 29 patients who underwent revascularization by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Treated vessels were the left anterior descending coronary artery, the left circumflex and the right coronary artery in 26, 2 and 1 patients, respectively. Following intracoronary adenosine administration, distal coronary pressure and blood flow were 48 ± 18 mm Hg and 45 ± 30 ml/min before PCI, respectively, and significantly increased afterwards to 80±17mmHg and 68±32 ml/min (p b 0.001). The model predicts an increase inMVNU number in patients with preserved wall motion in the myocardial region which underwent PCI. On the contrary, a decrease in MVNU number is predicted by the model in patients with regional dysfunction and implies a relatively lower response of maximal flow to revascularization.

A Mathematical Model for the Vessel Recruitment in Coronary Microcirculation In the Absence of Active Autoregulation

SARACCO, ALICE;BAUCKNEHT, MATTEO;REPETTO, RODOLFO;SAMBUCETI, GIANMARIO;STORACE, MARCO
2016-01-01

Abstract

This paper proposes a mathematical model for vessel recruitment in the microvascular coronary network. The model is based on microvascular network units (MVNUs), where we define aMVNU as a portion of the microvascular network comprising seven generations of identical, parallel-arranged vessels (upstream arteries, large and small arterioles, capillaries, small and large venules, and downstream veins). The model implements a new mechanism to describe the variation in the number of MVNU in response to sudden variations of the local input pressure. In particular, it describes a recruitment mechanismdependent on distal pressure which operates in the coronary microcirculatory network even in maximally dilated conditions. Weapply the model to interpret data from 29 patients who underwent revascularization by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Treated vessels were the left anterior descending coronary artery, the left circumflex and the right coronary artery in 26, 2 and 1 patients, respectively. Following intracoronary adenosine administration, distal coronary pressure and blood flow were 48 ± 18 mm Hg and 45 ± 30 ml/min before PCI, respectively, and significantly increased afterwards to 80±17mmHg and 68±32 ml/min (p b 0.001). The model predicts an increase inMVNU number in patients with preserved wall motion in the myocardial region which underwent PCI. On the contrary, a decrease in MVNU number is predicted by the model in patients with regional dysfunction and implies a relatively lower response of maximal flow to revascularization.
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