IMR Press / RCM / Volume 22 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.31083/j.rcm2204150
Open Access Systematic Review
A review of multiscale 0D–1D computational modeling of coronary circulation with applications to cardiac arrhythmias
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1 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
2 Department of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
*Correspondence: stefania.scarsoglio@polito.it (Stefania Scarsoglio)
These authors contributed equally.
Academic Editor: Peter A. McCullough
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2021, 22(4), 1461–1469; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2204150
Submitted: 14 August 2021 | Revised: 9 September 2021 | Accepted: 22 September 2021 | Published: 22 December 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Atrial fibrillation and ischemic heart disease)
Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Abstract

Computational hemodynamics is becoming an increasingly important tool in clinical applications and surgical procedures involving the cardiovascular system. Aim of this review is to provide a compact summary of state of the art 0D–1D multiscale models of the arterial coronary system, with particular attention to applications related to cardiac arrhythmias, whose effects on the coronary circulation remain so far poorly understood. The focus on 0D–1D models only is motivated by the competitive computational cost, the reliability of the outcomes for the whole cardiovascular system, and the ability to directly account for cardiac arrhythmias. The analyzed studies show that cardiac arrhythmias by their own are able to promote significant alterations of the coronary hemodynamics, with a worse scenario as the mean heart rate (HR) increases. The present review can stimulate future investigation, both in computational and clinical research, devoted to the hemodynamic effects induced by cardiac arrhythmias on the coronary circulation.

Keywords
Computational hemodynamics
Coronary circulation
Cardiac arrhythmias
Cardiovascular fluid dynamics
Atrial fibrillation
Multiscale 0D–1D modelling
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