- Provides extensively revised materials on the latest developments in hemodynamics including genetic and molecular aspects
- Provides a thorough grounding in the discipline that will help any medical professional and researcher in the field
- Represents a succinct overview of individual topics in a concise and understandable format
This new edition is written in the same quick reference style as its predecessor to help clinical and basic researchers, as well as graduate students, understand hemodynamics. Hemodynamics makes it possible to characterize, in a quantitative way and often with noninvasive techniques, the function of the heart and the arterial system, individually and in combination.
Snapshots of Hemodynamics provides a thorough grounding in the discipline that will help any medical professional and researcher in the field. The authors have designed each chapter such that it gives a succinct overview of individual topics in a concise and understandable format. Each chapter of this new edition has been extensively updated while new chapters have been included on pulmonary hemodynamics and wave intensity analysis. The new edition presents the newest current information on hemodynamics in this ever-changing field.
Table of Contents- Viscosity
- Law of Poiseuille
- Bernoulli's Equation
- Turbulence
- Arterial Stenosis
- Resistance
- Inertance
- Oscillatory Flow Theory
- Law of Laplace
- Elasticity
- Compliance
- Wave Travel and Reflection
- Cardiac Muscle Mechanics
- The Pressure-Volume Relation
- The Pump Function Graph
- Cardiac Work, Energy and Power
- Cardiac Oxygen Consumption and Hemodynamics
- Cardiac Power and Ventriculo-Arterial Coupling
- Coronary Hemodynamics
- Assessing Ventricular Function
- Wave Travel and Pulse Wave Velocity
- Wave Separation and Waveform Analysis
- Wave Intensity Analysis
- Arterial Input Impedance
- The Arterial Windkessel
- Distributed Models and Tube Models
- Transfer of Pressure
- Pulmonary Hemodynamics
- Mechanotransduction and Vascular Remodeling
- Blood Flow and Arterial Disease
- Determinants of Pressure and Flow
- Comparative Physiology
- Appendices
