Blood Flow in the Heart and Large Vessels, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989

Cardiovascular fluid mechanics is now used as a tool in determining diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis by physicians and surgeons working in the fields of cardiology and angiology. The text is based on a considerable amount of clinical and experimental data on blood flow in the heart and large vessels obtained using various methods such as ultrasound pulsed Doppler velocimetry (including Doppler color flow imaging), catheter-tip electromagnetic velocimetry, hot-film anemometry, and laser Doppler velocimetry. The book will introduce medical researchers and clinicians to this rapidly developing field and allow them to apply the knowledge and the methods of fluid mechanics to practical medicine.

1 Blood Flow in the Aorta.- 2 Blood Flow in the Pulmonary Artery.- 3 Blood Flow in the Left Ventricle.- 4 Turbulence.- 5 Relation of Aortic Blood Flow to Cardiac Performance: Principle of a Noninvasive Method of Measuring Max (dP/dt).- 6 Blood Flow in Coronary Vessels.- 7 Stenosis: Theoretical Background.- 8 Stenosis: Clinical Measurements.- 9 Regurgitation.- 10 Shunt.- 11 Fluid Dynamics of Free Jets: Quantification of Regurgitations, Shunts, and Stenosed Flows.- 12 Pulmonary Hypertension.- 13 Methods of Measuring Blood Velocity.- References.- Author Index.