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 …

Mavacamten, a precision medicine for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: From a motor protein to patients

S Nag, SK Gollapudi, CL Del Rio, JA Spudich… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a primary myocardial disorder characterized by left
ventricular hypertrophy, hyperdynamic contraction, and impaired relaxation of the heart …

The 'Digital Twin'to enable the vision of precision cardiology

J Corral-Acero, F Margara, M Marciniak… - European heart …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Providing therapies tailored to each patient is the vision of precision medicine, enabled by
the increasing ability to capture extensive data about individual patients. In this position …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac transmembrane ion channels and action potentials: cellular physiology and arrhythmogenic behavior

V András, J Tomek, N Nagy, L Virág… - Physiological …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Cardiac arrhythmias are among the leading causes of mortality. They often arise from
alterations in the electrophysiological properties of cardiac cells and their underlying ionic …

Development, calibration, and validation of a novel human ventricular myocyte model in health, disease, and drug block

J Tomek, A Bueno-Orovio, E Passini, X Zhou… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Human-based modelling and simulations are becoming ubiquitous in biomedical science
due to their ability to augment experimental and clinical investigations. Cardiac …

Human In Silico Drug Trials Demonstrate Higher Accuracy than Animal Models in Predicting Clinical Pro-Arrhythmic Cardiotoxicity

E Passini, OJ Britton, HR Lu, J Rohrbacher… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Early prediction of cardiotoxicity is critical for drug development. Current animal models
raise ethical and translational questions, and have limited accuracy in clinical risk prediction …

[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 …

Cardiovascular changes associated with hypertensive heart disease and aging

S Saheera, P Krishnamurthy - Cell transplantation, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide and
account for more than 17.9 million deaths (World Health Organization report). Hypertension …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Variability in cardiac electrophysiology: using experimentally-calibrated populations of models to move beyond the single virtual physiological human …

A Muszkiewicz, OJ Britton, P Gemmell, E Passini… - Progress in biophysics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Physiological variability manifests itself via differences in physiological function between
individuals of the same species, and has crucial implications in disease progression and …