Mitral valve dynamics in a closed-loop model of the cardiovascular system

A cardiovascular and circulatory system (CVS) model has been validated in silico, and in several animal model studies. It accounts for valve dynamics by means of Heaviside function to simulate “open on pressure, close on flow” law. Thus, it does not consider the real time scale of the valve aperture and thus doesn’t fully capture valve dysfunction. This research couples the CVS model with a model describing the progressive aperture of the mitral valve