Regional Local Flow Regulation

Abstract

“Ask it shall be given.” The heart and the peripheral organs it supplies is like a mother and her children. The mother heart is the source of all sustenance, its oxygenated and energy substrate-richblood (cardiac output). Some of the organs are more demanding;at rest, more blood flow/weight of the organ. There is anunequal distribution of cardiac outputto the different organs. In specific situations,there is a redistribution of cardiac output based on the differential functional needs of the organs. In general, a greater demand for oxygen/energy by a particular organ will lead to an increased blood flow to that tissue. The mother heart pampers all her children and gives more of its generous life-giving output to whichever organ that ask for more!