In the last few decades, the development of new electrospun materials with different
morphologies and advanced multifunctional properties are strongly consolidated. There are …

Proper tricuspid valve (TV) function is essential to unidirectional blood flow through the right
side of the heart. Alterations to the tricuspid valvular components, such as the TV annulus …

Additive manufacturing (or three-dimensional (3D) printing) is constantly growing as an
innovative process for the production of complex-shape components. Among the seven …

Recently, micro-sphere-based methods derived from the angular integration approach have
been used for excluding fibres under compression in the modelling of soft biological tissues …

Background Healthy function of tricuspid valve (TV) structures is essential to avoid tricuspid
regurgitation (TR) and may significantly improve disease prognosis. Mitral valve (MV) …

Cardiac fluid dynamics fundamentally involves interactions between complex blood flows
and the structural deformations of the muscular heart walls and the thin valve leaflets. There …

Mitral valve (MV) dynamics depends on a force balance across the mitral leaflets, the
chordae tendineae, the mitral annulus, the papillary muscles and the adjacent ventricular …

Recently, we introduced a discrete fiber dispersion model based on triangular discretization
of a unit sphere with a finite number of elementary areas. Over each elementary area, we …

Summary Three-dimensional (3D)-printing technologies in cardiovascular surgery have
provided a new way to tailor surgical and percutaneous treatments. Digital information from …

Trabeculae carneae account for a significant portion of human ventricular mass, despite
being considered embryologic remnants. Recent studies have found trabeculae hypertrophy …