Right heart catheterization data from clinical records of heart transplant patients are used to identify patient-specific models of the cardiovascular system. r These patient-specific cardiovascular models represent a snapshot of cardiovascular function at a given post-transplant recovery time point. r This approach is used to describe cardiac function in 10 heart transplant patients, five of which had multiple right heart catheterizations allowing an assessment of cardiac function over time. r These patient-specific models are used to predict cardiovascular function in the form of right and left ventricular pressure-volume loops and ventricular power, an important metric in the clinical assessment of cardiac function. r Outcomes for the longitudinally tracked patients show that our approach was able to identify the one patient from the group of five that exhibited post-transplant cardiovascular complications.
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