From evidence-based medicine to digital twin technology for predicting ventricular tachycardia in ischaemic cardiomyopathy

AGW de Lepper, CMA Buck… - Journal of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Survivors of myocardial infarction are at risk of life-threatening ventricular tachycardias (VTs)
later in their lives. Current guidelines for implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive and biophysically detailed computational model of the whole human heart electromechanics

M Fedele, R Piersanti, F Regazzoni, M Salvador… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
While ventricular electromechanics is extensively studied in both physiological and
pathological conditions, four-chamber heart models have only been addressed recently; …

A mathematical model that integrates cardiac electrophysiology, mechanics, and fluid dynamics: Application to the human left heart

M Bucelli, A Zingaro, PC Africa… - … journal for numerical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a mathematical and numerical model for the simulation of the heart function that
couples cardiac electrophysiology, active and passive mechanics and hemodynamics, and …

[HTML][HTML] lifex: A flexible, high performance library for the numerical solution of complex finite element problems

PC Africa - SoftwareX, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations are ubiquitous in mathematics and computational science. Several
industrial and clinical applications entail modeling complex multiphysics systems that evolve …

[HTML][HTML] A cardiac electromechanical model coupled with a lumped-parameter model for closed-loop blood circulation

F Regazzoni, M Salvador, PC Africa, M Fedele… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a novel mathematical and numerical model for cardiac electromechanics,
wherein biophysically detailed core models describe the different physical processes …

[HTML][HTML] 3D–0D closed-loop model for the simulation of cardiac biventricular electromechanics

R Piersanti, F Regazzoni, M Salvador, AF Corno… - Computer Methods in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Two crucial factors for accurate numerical simulations of cardiac electromechanics, which
are also essential to reproduce the synchronous activity of the heart, are:(i) accounting for …

lifex-cfd: An open-source computational fluid dynamics solver for cardiovascular applications

PC Africa, I Fumagalli, M Bucelli, A Zingaro… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an important tool for the simulation of the
cardiovascular function and dysfunction. Due to the complexity of the anatomy, the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of mechano-electric feedbacks and hemodynamic coupling in scar-related ventricular tachycardia

M Salvador, F Regazzoni, S Pagani… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Mechano-electric feedbacks (MEFs), which model how mechanical stimuli are
transduced into electrical signals, have received sparse investigation by considering …

lifex-fiber: an open tool for myofibers generation in cardiac computational models

PC Africa, R Piersanti, M Fedele, L Dede'… - BMC …, 2023 - Springer
Background Modeling the whole cardiac function involves the solution of several complex
multi-physics and multi-scale models that are highly computationally demanding, which call …

lifex-ep: a robust and efficient software for cardiac electrophysiology simulations

PC Africa, R Piersanti, F Regazzoni, M Bucelli… - BMC …, 2023 - Springer
Background Simulating the cardiac function requires the numerical solution of multi-physics
and multi-scale mathematical models. This underscores the need for streamlined, accurate …