RESIDUAL STRAIN IN RAT LEFT-VENTRICLE
RESIDUAL STRAIN IN RAT LEFT-VENTRICLE
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DOI:
10.1161/01.res.66.1.37
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发表时间:
1990-01-01
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
FUNG, YC
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作者:
OMENS, JH;FUNG, YC
Residual stress in an organ is defined as the stress that remains when all external loads are removed. Residual stress has generally been ignored in published papers on left ventricular wall stress. To take residual stress into account in the analysis of stress distributions in a beating heart, one must first measure the residual strain in the no-load state of the heart. Residual strain in equatorial cross-sectional rings (1-3 mm thick) of five potassium-arrested rat left ventricles were measured. The effect of friction and external loading were reduced by submersing the specimen in fluid, and a hypothermic, hyperkalemic arresting solution containing nifedipine and EGTA was used to delay the onset of ischemic contracture. Stainless steel microspheres (60-100 .mu.m) were lightly imbedded on the surface of the slices, and the radial cut was made through the left ventricular free wall. Two-dimensional strains computed from the deformation of a slice after one radial cut were defined as the residual strains in that slice. It was found that the distributions of the principal residual stretch ratios were asymmetric with respect to the radial cut: in areas where substantial transmural strain gradients existed, the distributions of strain components were different on the two sides of the radial cut. A second radial cut produced deformations significantly smaller than those produced from the first radial cut. Hence, a slice with one radial cut may be considered stress free. Our results show that the circumferential residual strain was negative in the endocardial region (stretch ratios were significantly less than 1.00, p