The Heart and Circulation An Integrative Model /
What drives the circulation? In this comprehensive review of existing circulation models, the conventional view that the heart is a pressure-propulsion pump is challenged. The existing models fail to explain an increasing number of observed circulatory phenomena. A unifying circulation model is p...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer London : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- PART I – Early Embryo Circulation
- Introduction
- Early Embryo Circulation – Morphologic Features
- The Onset of Circulation
- Hemodynamics of the Early Embryo Circulation
- Flow Patterns in the Early Embryo Circulation
- Heart Vortex Formation
- Is There a Circulation Without a Heart?
- Embryo Heart is not a Peristaltic Pump
- Flow Perturbation Experiments
- Heart Rate Perturbations
- The Heart as Generator of Pressure
- Ventriculo-Vascular Interaction
- A Brief Comparative Phylogeny
- Evolutionary Aspect of the Rhythmical System
- PART II – Mature Circulation
- Functional Morphology of the Heart
- Regulation of Cardiac Output
- Models of the Heart
- Cardiovascular Response during Exercise
- Hemodynamic Effects of Aortic Occlusion
- Increased Pulmonary Flows
- Single Ventricle Physiology
- Blood as an Organ.
