Abstract
Myocardial infarction (MI) results in cardiac myocyte death and often initiates the formation of a fibrotic scar in the myocardium surrounded by a border zone. Myocyte loss and collagen-rich scar tissue heavily influence the biomechanical behavior of the myocardium which could lead to various cardiac diseases such as systolic heart failure and arrhythmias. Knowledge of how myocyte and collagen micro-architecture changes affect the passive mechanical behavior of the border zone remains limited. Computational modeling provides us with an invaluable tool to identify and study the mechanisms driving the biomechanical remodeling of the myocardium post-MI. We utilized a rodent model of MI and an image-based approach to characterize the three-dimensional (3-D) myocyte and collagen micro-architecture at various timepoints post-MI. Left ventricular free wall (LVFW) samples were obtained from infarcted hearts at 1-week and 4-week post-MI (n = 1 each). Samples were labeled using immunoassays to identify the extracellular matrix (ECM) and myocytes. 3-D reconstructions of the infarct border zone were developed from confocal imaging and meshed to develop high-fidelity micro-anatomically accurate finite element models. We performed a parametric study using these models to investigate the influence of collagen undulation on the passive micromechanical behavior of the myocardium under a diastolic load. Our results suggest that although parametric increases in collagen undulation elevate the strain amount experienced by the ECM in both early- and late-stage MI, the sensitivity of myocytes to such increases is reduced from early to late-stage MI. Our 3-D micro-anatomical modeling holds promise in identifying mechanisms of border zone maladaptation post-MI.
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This research was supported by the NIH Grant No. R00HL138288 to R.A.
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Mendiola, E.A. et al. (2023). A Micro-anatomical Model of the Infarcted Left Ventricle Border Zone to Study the Influence of Collagen Undulation. In: Bernard, O., Clarysse, P., Duchateau, N., Ohayon, J., Viallon, M. (eds) Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart. FIMH 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13958. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35302-4_4
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