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A mathematical model of the infant pulmonary vascular system was developed by altering an adult model to fit the hemodynamic properties of an infant pulmonary vascular bed. The model was designed for infants between the ages of 1 and 2 years with both normal and high mean pulmonary artery pressures (PAPs). The resulting infant model was evaluated on the basis of the computed parameters of cumulative length, volume and resistance of the pulmonary vascular bed, as well as on the basis of comparisons of the model spectra with actual computed spectra for ventricular septal defect patients who were of comparable age, had comparable mean PAPs and were not diagnosed as having pulmonary vascular disease. It was observed that the first minimum and first maximum in the modulus of the input impedance spectrum of the infant model for both normal and high mean PAPs occurred at a higher frequency than in the adult model. These observations led to the conclusion that there is a natural, age-related shift in the input impedance spectrum of infants which is not necessarily indicative of pulmonary impairment.
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Radke, N.F., Lucas, C.L., Wilcox, B.R. et al. Infant pulmonary vascular model based on the pulmonary input impedance spectrum. Ann Biomed Eng 13, 531–550 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02584256
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