The keynote to understanding cardiac function is recognizing the underlying architecture
responsible for the contractile mechanisms that produce the narrowing, shortening …

Structure and function in any organ are inseparable categories, both in health and disease.
Whether we are ready to accept, or not, many questions in cardiovascular medicine are still …

We demonstrate the assembly of biohybrid materials from engineered tissues and synthetic
polymer thin films. The constructs were built by culturing neonatal rat ventricular …

Objectives: We sought to examine the accuracy/consistency of a novel ultrasound speckle
tracking imaging (STI) method for left ventricular torsion (LVtor) measurement in comparison …

Objectives: We sought to investigate the clinical prognostic value of longitudinal and
circumferential strain (S) and strain rate (SR) in patients after high-risk myocardial infarction …

Myocardial strain is a measure of myocardial deformation, which is a more sensitive imaging
biomarker of myocardial disease than the commonly used ventricular ejection fraction …

We are currently witnessing the advent of new diagnostic tools and therapies for heart
diseases, but, without serious scientific consensus on fundamental questions about normal …

Cardiac dynamics are traditionally linked to a left ventricle, right ventricle, and septum
morphology, a topography that differs from the heart's five-century-old anatomic description …

Background—Left ventricular (LV) torsional deformation is a sensitive index for LV
performance but difficult to measure. The present study tested the accuracy of a novel …

BACKGROUND: The left ventricle is not homogenous and is composed of 3 myocardial
layers. Until recently, magnetic resonance imaging has been the only noninvasive technique …