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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology2016

Intraspecific scaling laws are preserved in ventricular hypertrophy but not in heart failure.

Yanjun Gong, Yundi Feng, Xudong Chen, Wenchang Tan, Yunlong Huo, Ghassan S Kassab

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Article in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Yanjun GongDepartment of Cardiology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.
Yundi FengDepartment of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Xudong ChenDepartment of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Wenchang TanDepartment of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Yunlong HuoDepartment of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China; yhuo@pku.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-4121-3224
Ghassan S KassabCalifornia Medical Innovations Institute, San Diego California.
Peking University · CNCalifornia Medical Innovations Institute · US

Funding

Multi-Scale Laws of Myocardial Growth and RemodelingU01HL119578 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GUCCIONE, JULIUS MATTEO, KASSAB, GHASSAN S · 2014 to 2018
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NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL119578
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is scientifically and clinically important to understand the structure-function scaling of coronary arterial trees in compensatory (e.g., left and right ventricular hypertrophy, LVH and RVH) and decompensatory vascular remodeling (e.g., congestive heart failure, CHF). This study hypothesizes that intraspecific scaling power laws of vascular trees are preserved in hypertrophic hearts but not in CHF swine hearts. To test the hypothesis, we carried out the scaling analysis based on morphometry and hemodynamics of coronary arterial trees in moderate LVH, severe RVH, and CHF compared with age-matched respective control hearts. The scaling exponents of volume-diameter, length-volume, and flow-diameter power laws in control hearts were consistent with the theoretical predictions (i.e., 3, 7/9, and 7/3, respectively), which remained unchanged in LVH and RVH hearts. The scaling exponents were also preserved with an increase of body weight during normal growth of control animals. In contrast, CHF increased the exponents of volume-diameter and flow-diameter scaling laws to 4.25 ± 1.50 and 3.15 ± 1.49, respectively, in the epicardial arterial trees. This study validates the predictive utility of the scaling laws to diagnose vascular structure and function in CHF hearts to identify the borderline between compensatory and decompensatory remodeling.

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HemodynamicsVascular RemodelingAnimalsCoronary VesselsFractalsHeart FailureHypertrophy, Left VentricularHypertrophy, Right VentricularModels, CardiovascularSus scrofaSwinecongestive heart failurefractal dimensionleft ventricular hypertrophyright ventricular hypertrophyscaling lawsstructure-function hierarchyvascular remodeling

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PMID27542405
PMCPMC6347071
OpenAlexW2511491930

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