Refining Our Understanding of the Flow Through Coronary Artery Branches; Revisiting Murray’s Law in Human Epicardial Coronary Arteries

Refining Our Understanding of the Flow Through Coronary Artery Branches; Revisiting Murray’s Law in Human Epicardial Coronary Arteries

Background: Quantification of coronary blood flow is used to evaluate coronary artery disease, but our understanding of flow through branched systems is poor. Murray’s law defines coronary morphometric scaling, the relationship between flow (Q) and vessel diameter (D) and is the basis for minimum lu...

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Main Authors: Daniel J. Taylor, Jeroen Feher, Ian Halliday, D. Rodney Hose, Rebecca Gosling, Louise Aubiniere-Robb, Marcel van ‘t Veer, Danielle Keulards, Pim A. L. Tonino, Michel Rochette, Julian Gunn, Paul D. Morris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
Subjects:
bifurcation
left main coronary artery
stable angina
translational physiology
Murray’s exponent
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.871912/full

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