Commentary: Four-dimensional left ventricular flow imaging after surgical valve reconstruction—pretty pictures or marker of repair quality?

[摘要] From Hippocrates and Vesalius to Ibn al-Nafis and William Harvey, the controversy of blood flow in medicine and philosophy has persisted for centuries. While Leonardo DaVinci's description of vortex and laminar flow1 should have bridged the chasm between rationalists and empiricists, it took 450 years before his hypotheses were corroborated in the laboratory by Brian Bellhouse and colleagues in Oxford in the 1960s, using dyes with radiography to delineate blood flow patterns in the aortic root.2 The subsequent momentum in hemodynamics3 was sustained by advancements in mapping blood particles' velocities using contrast echocardiography4 and magnetic resonance imaging.

[学科分类] 心脏病和心血管学