Precision medicine in human heart modeling: perspectives, challenges, and opportunities

M Peirlinck, FS Costabal, J Yao, JM Guccione… - … and modeling in …, 2021 - Springer
Precision medicine is a new frontier in healthcare that uses scientific methods to customize
medical treatment to the individual genes, anatomy, physiology, and lifestyle of each person …

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a clinical consensus document by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

S Mavrogeni, A Pepe, R Nijveldt, N Ntusi… - European Heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) involve multiple organs including the heart and
vasculature. Despite novel treatments, patients with ARDs still experience a reduced life …

The openCARP simulation environment for cardiac electrophysiology

G Plank, A Loewe, A Neic, C Augustin… - Computer methods and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective: Cardiac electrophysiology is a medical specialty with a
long and rich tradition of computational modeling. Nevertheless, no community standard for …

[HTML][HTML] Electro-mechanical whole-heart digital twins: a fully coupled multi-physics approach

T Gerach, S Schuler, J Fröhlich, L Lindner… - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mathematical models of the human heart are evolving to become a cornerstone of precision
medicine and support clinical decision making by providing a powerful tool to understand …

Pharmacological management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: from bench to bedside

C Palandri, L Santini, A Argirò, F Margara, R Doste… - Drugs, 2022 - Springer
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common inherited heart disease, is still
orphan of a specific drug treatment. The erroneous consideration of HCM as a rare disease …

Mechanism based therapies enable personalised treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

F Margara, Y Psaras, ZJ Wang, M Schmid, R Doste… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Cardiomyopathies have unresolved genotype–phenotype relationships and lack disease-
specific treatments. Here we provide a framework to identify genotype-specific …

A detailed mathematical model of the human atrial cardiomyocyte: integration of electrophysiology and cardiomechanics

F Mazhar, C Bartolucci, F Regazzoni… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mechano‐electric regulations (MER) play an important role in the maintenance of cardiac
performance. Mechano‐calcium and mechano‐electric feedback (MCF and MEF) pathways …

CalTrack: high-throughput automated calcium transient analysis in cardiomyocytes

Y Psaras, F Margara, M Cicconet, AJ Sparrow… - Circulation …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: Calcium transient analysis is central to understanding inherited and acquired
cardiac physiology and disease. Although the development of novel calcium reporters …

[HTML][HTML] Electromechanical modeling of human ventricles with ischemic cardiomyopathy: numerical simulations in sinus rhythm and under arrhythmia

M Salvador, M Fedele, PC Africa, E Sung… - Computers in Biology …, 2021 - Elsevier
We developed a novel patient-specific computational model for the numerical simulation of
ventricular electromechanics in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM). This model …

Why translation from basic discoveries to clinical applications is so difficult for atrial fibrillation and possible approaches to improving it

S Nattel, PT Sager, J Hueser, J Heijman… - Cardiovascular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained clinical arrhythmia, with a lifetime
incidence of up to 37%, and is a major contributor to population morbidity and mortality …