Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death, and translational research is needed to
understand better mechanisms whereby the left ventricle responds to injury. Mouse models …

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) tagging has been established as an essential
technique for measuring regional myocardial function. It allows quantification of local …

Cardiovascular disease affects over 82 million Americans, of which myocardial infarction
(MI) and subsequent heart failure (HF) patients are a major subset. As a result, the …

Recently there has been considerable interest in LV torsion and its relationship with
symptomatic and pre-symptomatic disease processes. Torsion gives useful additional …

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) termed a 'disease of the
desmosome'is an inherited cardiomyopathy that recently underwent reclassification owing to …

Background Several injectable materials have been shown to preserve or improve cardiac
function as well as prevent or slow left ventricular (LV) remodeling post-myocardial infarction …

Cardiac rhythms arise from electrical activity generated by precisely timed opening and
closing of ion channels in individual cardiac myocytes. These impulses spread throughout …

The quantification of cardiac strains as structural indices of cardiac function has a growing
prevalence in clinical diagnosis. However, the highly heterogeneous four-dimensional (4D) …

Although a truly complete understanding of whole heart activation, contraction, and
deformation is well beyond our current reach, a significant amount of effort has been …

Major advances in biomedical imaging have occurred over the last 2 decades and now
allow many physiological, cellular, and molecular processes to be imaged noninvasively in …