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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 280: H2076-H2086, 2001;
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Vol. 280, Issue 5, H2076-H2086, May 2001

Modeling of the Norwood circulation: effects of shunt size, vascular resistances, and heart rate

Francesco Migliavacca1, Giancarlo Pennati2, Gabriele Dubini3, Roberto Fumero2, Riccardo Pietrabissa2, Gonzalo Urcelay4, Edward L. Bove4, Tain-Yen Hsia1, and Marc R. de Leval1

1 Cardiothoracic Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, WC1N 3JH London, United Kingdom; 2 Bioengineering and 3 Energy Engineering Departments and Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy; and 4 Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is the most common lethal cardiac malformation of the newborn. Its treatment, apart from heart transplantation, is the Norwood operation. The initial procedure for this staged repair consists of reconstructing a circulation where a single outlet from the heart provides systemic perfusion and an interpositioning shunt contributes blood flow to the lungs. To better understand this unique physiology, a computational model of the Norwood circulation was constructed on the basis of compartmental analysis. Influences of shunt diameter, systemic and pulmonary vascular resistance, and heart rate on the cardiovascular dynamics and oxygenation were studied. Simulations showed that 1) larger shunts diverted an increased proportion of cardiac output to the lungs, away from systemic perfusion, resulting in poorer O2 delivery, 2) systemic vascular resistance exerted more effect on hemodynamics than pulmonary vascular resistance, 3) systemic arterial oxygenation was minimally influenced by heart rate changes, 4) there was a better correlation between venous O2 saturation and O2 delivery than between arterial O2 saturation and O2 delivery, and 5) a pulmonary-to-systemic blood flow ratio of 1 resulted in optimal O2 delivery in all physiological states and shunt sizes.

congenital heart disease; computer model; hypoplastic left heart syndrome


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