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Note publique d'information : Coronary blood flow is blood flow to the heart for its own metabolic needs. In the
most common form of heart disease there is a disruption in this flow because of obstructive
disease in the vessels that carry the flow. The subject of coronary blood flow is
therefore associated mostly with the pathophysiology of this disease, rarely with
dynamics or physics. Yet, the system responsible for coronary blood flow, namely the
"coronary circulation," is a highly sophisticated dynamical system in which the dynamics
and physics of the flow are as important as the integrity of the conducting vessels.
While an obstruction in the conducting vessels is a fairly obvious and clearly visible
cause of disruption in coronary blood flow, any discord in the complex dynamics of
the system can cause an equally grave, though less conspicuous, disruption in the
flow. This book is devoted specifically to the dynamics and physics of coronary blood
flow. While relevance to the clinical and pathophysiological issues is clearly maintained,
the book approaches the subject from a biomedical engineering point of view. With
this perspective, the Physics of Coronary Blood Flow complements other treatments
of the subject that focus largely on the clinical and pathophysiological issues. The
author, originally trained in fluid dynamics, has been teaching and working on the
dynamics of blood flow in general and coronary blood flow in particular for the past
thirty years and has produced a book that will appeal to physicians, physicists and
engineers
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