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J Appl Physiol 85: 738-746, 1998;
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Vol. 85, Issue 2, 738-746, August 1998

MODELING IN PHYSIOLOGY
Central venous pressure and cardiac function during spaceflight

Ronald J. White1 and C. Gunnar Blomqvist2

1 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030; and 2 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75235

Early in spaceflight, an apparently paradoxical condition occurs in which, despite an externally visible headward fluid shift, measured central venous pressure is lower but stroke volume and cardiac output are higher, and heart rate is unchanged from reference measurements made before flight. This paper presents a set of studies in which a simple three-compartment, steady-state model of cardiovascular function is used, providing insight into the contributions made by the major mechanisms that could be responsible for these events. On the basis of these studies, we conclude that, during weightless spaceflight, the chest relaxes with a concomitant shape change that increases the volume of the closed chest cavity. This leads to a decrease in intrapleural pressure, ultimately causing a shift of blood into the vessels of the chest, increasing the transmural filling pressure of the heart, and decreasing the central venous pressure. The increase in the transmural filling pressure of the heart is responsible, through a Starling-type mechanism, for the observed increases in heart size, left ventricular end-diastolic volume, stroke volume, and cardiac output.

extracardiac pressure; modeling; microgravity


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