One of the most common acute and chronic cardiovascular disease conditions is aortic
stenosis, a disease in which the aortic valve is damaged and can no longer function …

Aortic stenosis is an acute and chronic cardiovascular disease that often coexists with other
complex valvular, ventricular and vascular diseases (C3VD). Transcatheter aortic valve …

Gallbladder disease is one of the most spread pathologies in the world. Despite the number
of operations dealing with biliary surgery increases, the number of postoperative …

This article presents a broad overview of the fluid mechanics of the human cardiovascular
system. Beginning in the heart, we travel through the main features of our circulation to …

Background The heterogeneous morphologic and functional expression of hypertrophic
obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is evidenced by established imaging, multimodality …

Although septal myectomy is the preferred treatment for medication-refractory hypertrophic
obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), the procedure remains subjective. A preoperative …

The total kinetic energy (KE) of blood can be decomposed into mean KE (MKE) and
turbulent KE (TKE), which are associated with the phase-averaged fluid velocity field and the …

This study provides a comprehensive computational analysis of how mechanical heart valve
orientations impact left ventricular (LV) hemodynamics, with potential implications for …

This article describes the numerical efforts made to investigate the influence of a left
ventricular assist device (LVAD) on the patient-specific left heart's hemodynamics. Two …