Keywords: biomechanics, finite element modeling, heart ventricles, coronary arteries, ischemia, atherosclerosis, surgical remodeling, recommendations, patient-specific surgical planning..

One of the problems of practical medicine is the one connected to the search for new options for treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases, since the violation of normal functioning of the aforementioned system is one of the primary causes of invalidization and mortality of the population of developed countries. The comprehensive solution for such a problem includes the necessity for the development of modern automatic, computer-based methods of diagnostics and treatment of patients. Without any doubt, these methods will allow the qualitative and quantitative estimation of the patient's condition already at the stage of pre-surgery and the determination of rational options for the individual's surgical treatment aimed at revascularization of the myocardium, geometry reconstruction of the left ventricle cavity and the whole heart, and also to optimize the blood flow conditions in the coronary artery system. The aim of the work, described in this paper, is to construct biomechanical models of the human heart left ventricles and coronary arteries (taking into account the myocardium contraction, with pathological alterations and after the surgical treatment.

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