Open AccessMechanical Stimuli for Left Ventricular Growth During Pressure Overload
Author(s) -
Joy Mojumder,
Jenny S. Choy,
Shuai Leng,
Liang Zhong,
Ghassan S. Kassab,
Lik Chuan Lee
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
experimental mechanics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.815
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-2765
pISSN - 0014-4851
DOI - 10.1007/s11340-020-00643-z
Subject(s) - ventricle , pressure overload , volume overload , materials science , cardiology , correlation , medicine , mathematics , muscle hypertrophy , geometry , heart failure , cardiac hypertrophy
The mechanical stimulus (i.e. stress or stretch) for growth occurring in the pressure-overloaded left ventricle (LV) is not exactly known.