INTERACTION BETWEEN HEART AND VASCULATURE

Physiologists have long been interested in the interaction between the heart and vasculature. Until recently,the concept of ventricular vascular interaction has found important clinical application. The description of ven-tricular function in terms of both the time-varying elastance and the pump function graph and the quantification of vascular function in terms of impedance are two major developments of biomechanics. This paper presents a summary ofthe history of the researchs on the interaction between he...