Key result
Morphometric analysis of porcine coronary trees revealed that the ratio of large daughter to mother vessel has a minimum value at order 5, marking a potential hemodynamic transition.
Population
Porcine coronary arterial and venous trees
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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No clinical implications yet; leaves open whether order-5 transitions shape human coronary hemodynamics.
A transition in asymmetric bifurcation pattern at order 5 in porcine coronary vessels may mark a hemodynamic transition from transmural to perfusion subnetworks.
Kaimovitz et al. (2007) studied this question. Morphometric analysis of porcine coronary trees revealed that the ratio of large daughter to mother vessel has a minimum value at order 5, marking a potential hemodynamic transition.
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