In recent years, statistical studies highlighted an increasing incidence of cardiovascular
diseases (CVD) which reflected on additional costs on the healthcare systems worldwide …

Ventricular wall stress (WS) is an important hemodynamic parameter to represent
myocardial oxygen demand and ventricular workload. The normalization of WS is regarded …

The role that mechanical forces play in shaping the structure and function of the heart is
critical to understanding heart formation and the etiology of disease but is challenging to …

Individually personalized computational models of heart mechanics can be used to estimate
important physiological and clinically‐relevant quantities that are difficult, if not impossible …

Objectives: To explore the clinical value of circulating long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as
biomarkers to predict fetal congenital heart defects (CHD) in pregnant women. Methods …

Aims To evaluate the prognostic value of left ventricular (LV) remodelling index (RI) in
idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients. Methods and results We prospectively …

The left ventricle (LV) constantly changes its shape and function as a response to
pathological conditions, and this process is known as remodeling. In the presence of aortic …

The risk of right ventricle (RV) failure remains a major contraindication for continuous-flow
left ventricular assist device (CF-LVAD) implantation in patients with heart failure. It is …

The most important goal of traditional medical imaging in the clinic is to show pathological
changes on projection or slice images. The crucial criterion for the quality of the images …

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a disease characterized by progressive adverse
remodeling of the distal pulmonary arteries, resulting in elevated pulmonary vascular …