Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10431471 | Journal of Biomechanics | 2014 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The results show that while a combination of CFD and lumped parameter modeling without autoregulation delivers feasible results for physiological flow conditions, it overestimates the loss of cerebral blood flow during CPB. This is counteracted by the Baroreflex, which restores the cerebral blood flow to native levels. However, the cerebral blood flow during CPB is typically reduced by 10-20% in the clinic. This indicates that either the Baroreflex is not fully functional during CPB, or that the target value for the Baroreflex is not a full native cerebral blood flow, but the plateau phase of cerebral autoregulation, which starts at approximately 80% of native flow.
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Authors
Tim A.S. Kaufmann, Michael Neidlin, Martin Büsen, Simon J. Sonntag, Ulrich Steinseifer,