A novel constitutive model for passive right ventricular myocardium: evidence for myofiber-collagen fiber mechanical coupling

被引:56
作者
Avazmohammadi, Reza [1 ,2 ]
Hill, Michael R. [3 ]
Simon, Marc A. [4 ]
Zhang, Will [1 ,2 ]
Sacks, Michael S. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Texas Austin, Ctr Cardiovasc Simulat, Inst Computat Engn & Sci, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[2] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Biomed Engn, Austin, TX USA
[3] Univ Nottingham, Sch Math Sci, Nottingham, England
[4] Univ Pittsburgh, Inst Heart & Vasc, Dept Cardiol & Bioengn, Pittsburgh, PA USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
MATERIAL PARAMETER-ESTIMATION; RIGHT-HEART-FAILURE; SOFT-TISSUES; EQUATIONS; SURVIVAL; ORIENTATION; FRAMEWORK;
D O I
10.1007/s10237-016-0837-7
中图分类号
Q6 [生物物理学];
学科分类号
071011 ;
摘要
The function of right ventricle (RV) is recognized to play a key role in the development of many cardiopulmonary disorders, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Given the strong link between tissue structure and mechanical behavior, there remains a need for a myocardial constitutive model that accurately accounts for right ventricular myocardium architecture. Moreover, most available myocardial constitutive models approach myocardium at the length scale of mean fiber orientation and do not explicitly account for different fibrous constituents and possible interactions among them. In the present work, we developed a fiber-level constitutive model for the passive mechanical behavior of the right ventricular free wall (RVFW). The model explicitly separates the mechanical contributions of myofiber and collagen fiber ensembles, and accounts for the mechanical interactions between them. To obtain model parameters for the healthy passive RVFW, the model was informed by transmural orientation distribution measurements of myo- and collagen fibers and was fit to the mechanical testing data, where both sets of data were obtained from recent experimental studies on non-contractile, but viable, murine RVFW specimens. Results supported the hypothesis that in the low-strain regime, the behavior of the RVFW is governed by myofiber response alone, which does not demonstrate any coupling between different myofiber ensembles. At higher strains, the collagen fibers and their interactions with myofibers begin to gradually contribute and dominate the behavior as recruitment proceeds. Due to the use of viable myocardial tissue, the contribution of myofibers was significant at all strains with the predicted tensile modulus of similar to 32 kPa. This was in contrast to earlier reports (Horowitz et al. 1988) where the contribution of myofibers was found to be insignificant. Also, we found that the interaction between myo- and collagen fibers was greatest under equibiaxial strain, with its contribution to the total stress not exceeding 20 %. The present model can be applied to organ-level computational models of right ventricular dysfunction for efficient diagnosis and evaluation of pulmonary hypertension disorder.
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