Digital twins in medicine

R Laubenbacher, B Mehrad, I Shmulevich… - Nature Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
Medical digital twins, which are potentially vital for personalized medicine, have become a
recent focus in medical research. Here we present an overview of the state of the art in …

Computational modeling of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis: toward clinical translation

NA Trayanova, A Lyon, J Shade… - Physiological …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The complexity of cardiac electrophysiology, involving dynamic changes in numerous
components across multiple spatial (from ion channel to organ) and temporal (from …

The Canadian Cardiovascular Society classification of acute atherothrombotic myocardial infarction based on stages of tissue injury severity: an expert consensus …

A Kumar, K Connelly, K Vora, KR Bainey… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Myocardial infarction (MI) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. In
atherothrombotic MI (ST-elevation MI and type 1 non-ST-elevation MI), coronary artery …

Up digital and personal: How heart digital twins can transform heart patient care

NA Trayanova, A Prakosa - Heart Rhythm, 2024 - Elsevier
Precision medicine is the vision of health care where therapy is tailored to each patient. As
part of this vision, digital twinning technology promises to deliver a digital representation of …

Twenty-five years of research in cardiac imaging in electrophysiology procedures for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias

A Berruezo, D Penela, B Jáuregui, C de Asmundis… - Europace, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Catheter ablation is nowadays considered the treatment of choice for numerous cardiac
arrhythmias in different clinical scenarios. Fluoroscopy has traditionally been the primary …

Advanced electroanatomic map**: current and emerging approaches

SM Narayan, RM John - Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose of review Contemporary ablation for complex arrhythmias raises several
challenges for electroanatomic map**. We examine how current and emerging systems …

Microvascular obstruction and intramyocardial hemorrhage in reperfused myocardial infarctions: pathophysiology and clinical insights from imaging

KP Vora, A Kumar, MS Krishnam, FS Prato… - Cardiovascular …, 2024 - jacc.org
Microvascular injury immediately following reperfusion therapy in acute myocardial
infarction (MI) has emerged as a driving force behind major adverse cardiovascular events …

Assessing left atrial intramyocardial fat infiltration from computerized tomography angiography in patients with atrial fibrillation

A Saglietto, G Falasconi, D Soto-Iglesias, P Francia… - Europace, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Aims Epicardial adipose tissue might promote atrial fibrillation (AF) in several ways,
including infiltrating the underlying atrial myocardium. However, the role of this potential …

The circle of reentry: Characteristics of trigger-substrate interaction leading to sudden cardiac arrest

MJM Cluitmans, J Bayer, LR Bear… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Sudden cardiac death is often caused by ventricular arrhythmias driven by reentry.
Comprehensive characterization of the potential triggers and substrate in survivors of …

Association of epicardial and intramyocardial fat with ventricular arrhythmias

MM Sani, E Sung, M Engels, UA Daimee, N Trayanova… - Heart rhythm, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Among patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) and nonischemic
cardiomyopathy (NICM), myocardial fibrosis is associated with an increased risk for …