Mechanical Circulatory Support MCS is an important adjunct to the management of patients with severe heart failure Because the number of donor hearts available for transplantation is limited the use of MCS is growing as a valid alternative to save the lives of patients who are facing death
Noninvasive imaging of the heart continues to evolve and improve Cardiovascular ultrasound or echocardiography continues to play a key role in the diagnosis and assessment of response to therapy of many cardiac conditions The advantages of echocardiography are that it is a safe noninvasive test without radiation exposure and is a relatively inexpen...
Heart Failure HF is a critical social problem all over the world and HF with preserved Ejection Fraction HFpEF has particularly been increasing and upcoming to a bothering issue Complicated pathophysiology and multiple comorbidities with an aging population makes it rather difficult to find the best way to treat HFpEF patients and none of specific...
In the past decade minimally invasive surgical techniques have become prevalent in the field of cardiac surgery including minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass MIDCAB offpump coronary artery bypass OPCAB and minimal access atrial septal defect ASD closure and mitral and aortic valve surgery In addition to the development of new technolog...
The past two decades witnessed two recorded epidemics caused by the family of seven known coronaviruses Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus SARSCoV in and the Middle East Respiratory Coronavirus MERSCoV in before the third and also the most recent one started to emerge lately
The primary role of numerical modeling in cardiovascular biomechanics has been to predict the performance of medical devices and to estimate physiological and mechanical cues acting on tissues such as pressure and flowdriven stresses Given the vast experimental evidence of mechanical factors producing effects on cellular differentiation signaling c...
