[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive and biophysically detailed computational model of the whole human heart electromechanics

M Fedele, R Piersanti, F Regazzoni, M Salvador… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
While ventricular electromechanics is extensively studied in both physiological and
pathological conditions, four-chamber heart models have only been addressed recently; …

Non-invasive technologies for heart failure, systolic and diastolic dysfunction modeling: A sco** review

SM Al Younis, LJ Hadjileontiadis, C Stefanini… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The growing global prevalence of heart failure (HF) necessitates innovative methods for
early diagnosis and classification of myocardial dysfunction. In recent decades, non-invasive …

[HTML][HTML] lifex: A flexible, high performance library for the numerical solution of complex finite element problems

PC Africa - SoftwareX, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations are ubiquitous in mathematics and computational science. Several
industrial and clinical applications entail modeling complex multiphysics systems that evolve …

Fluid–structure interaction aortic valve surgery simulation: A review

AG Kuchumov, A Makashova, S Vladimirov, V Borodin… - Fluids, 2023 - mdpi.com
The complicated interaction between a fluid flow and a deformable structure is referred to as
fluid–structure interaction (FSI). FSI plays a crucial role in the functioning of the aortic valve …

GPU accelerated digital twins of the human heart open new routes for cardiovascular research

F Viola, G Del Corso, R De Paulis, R Verzicco - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The recruitment of patients for rare or complex cardiovascular diseases is a bottleneck for
clinical trials and digital twins of the human heart have recently been proposed as a viable …

lifex-cfd: An open-source computational fluid dynamics solver for cardiovascular applications

PC Africa, I Fumagalli, M Bucelli, A Zingaro… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an important tool for the simulation of the
cardiovascular function and dysfunction. Due to the complexity of the anatomy, the …

[HTML][HTML] An electromechanics-driven fluid dynamics model for the simulation of the whole human heart

A Zingaro, M Bucelli, R Piersanti, F Regazzoni… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We introduce a multiphysics and geometric multiscale computational model, suitable to
describe the hemodynamics of the whole human heart, driven by a four-chamber …

lifex-ep: a robust and efficient software for cardiac electrophysiology simulations

PC Africa, R Piersanti, F Regazzoni, M Bucelli… - BMC …, 2023 - Springer
Background Simulating the cardiac function requires the numerical solution of multi-physics
and multi-scale mathematical models. This underscores the need for streamlined, accurate …

[HTML][HTML] Pulmonary vein flow split effects in patient-specific simulations of left atrial flow

E Durán, M García-Villalba, P Martínez-Legazpi… - Computers in biology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Disruptions to left atrial (LA) blood flow, such as those caused by atrial fibrillation (AF), can
lead to thrombosis in the left atrial appendage (LAA) and an increased risk of systemic …

Turbulent blood dynamics in the left heart in the presence of mitral regurgitation: a computational study based on multi-series cine-MRI

L Bennati, V Giambruno, F Renzi, V Di Nicola… - … and Modeling in …, 2023 - Springer
In this work, we performed a computational image-based study of blood dynamics in the
whole left heart, both in a healthy subject and in a patient with mitral valve regurgitation. We …