Table 1.

Results from a simulation of a healthy man (age 30 years, weight 70 kg, 170 cm) compared to published normal values[13,25]

Global	Unit	Normal values	Simulated normal case
Heart rate	min-1	69 ± 17	72
Cardiac output	l · min-1	6.3 ± 2.4	5.09
Stroke volume	ml	89 ± 30	71.6
Systolic arterial pressure	mmHg	112/74 (87)	112/61 (79)
Pulmonary arterial pressure	mmHg	22/9 (14)	24/8 (11)
Myocardial volume	ml	374 ± 110	380
Maximum total heart volume	ml	762 ± 133	737
Total blood volume	ml	5105 ± 578	5600
Systemic arterial volume	%	11.4	7.0
Systemic capillary volume	%	5.4	4.4
Systemic venous volume	%	70.0	71.9
Pulmonary blood volume	%	8.1	10.7
Pulmonary capillary volume	%	2.5	2.2
Systemic arterial O2 saturation	%	96.4 ± 0.5	96.2
Mixed venous O2 saturation	%	70 ± 5	68.3
Coronary sinus O2 saturation	%	32 ± 8	28.6
Left ventricle
Ejection fraction	%	59 ± 4	67
Stroke work	mmHg·ml	5600 ± 1000	6735
End-systolic elastance	mmHg·ml-1	3.51 ± 1.26	2.43
Preload recruitable stroke work	mmHg	123 ± 36	88.8
dp/dtmax	mmHg·s-1	1840 ± 327	2359
dp/dtmin	mmHg·s-1	−1864 ± 390	−2666
Tau	ms	33 ± 8	18
End-diastolic volume	ml	123 ± 28	106.8
LA volume min --- max	ml	29.9 --- 76.7	55 --- 81
LAP	mmHg	8.3 ± 2.5	4.8
LV Tei	---	0.39 ± 0.05	0.41
LV Ees/Ea	---	1.62 ± 0.80	1.78
Right ventricle
RV EF	%	61.0 ± 5.8	68
RVSW	mmHg·ml	1980	1706
RV Ees	mmHg·ml-1	0.66	0.51
RV dpdtmax	mmHg·s-1	422 ± 46	538
RV dpdtmin	mmHg·s-1	−355 ± 45	−289
RV Tau	ms	---	33
RV EDV	ml	111 ± 22	105.6
RA volume min --- max	ml	---	49 --- 78
RAP	mmHg	4.8 ± 2.4	3.7
RV Tei	---	0.28 ± 0.05	0.13
RV Ees/Ea	---	---	1.14

Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation when available.