The Purkinje network is the rapid conduction system in the heart. It ensures the physiological spread of the electrical wave in the ventricles. From the mathematical viewpoint the model is made up of a degenerate parabolic reaction diffusion system coupled with an ODE system. We derive existence, uniqueness and some regularity results. The excitati...
Published in European Heart Journal
Aims Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been associated with cardiovascular features of myocardial involvement including elevated serum troponin levels and acute heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. The cardiac pathological changes in these patients with COVID-19 have...
Abstract Objective: To investigate the effect of Shenfu (SF) injection on donor heart preservation. Methods: Twelve pigs were randomly divided into SF group (n=6) and control group (n=6). After eight hours of perfusion, the differences in hemoglobin, the expression of Bcl-2 and BAX, and changes in the myocardial ultrastructure were compared to illu...
Published in Experimental and molecular pathology
Hypoxia may cause diseases in human beings. The up- or down- regulation of lncRNAs were identified to possess the ability to protect the myocardial cells from hypoxia injury. This study explored the role of lncRNA GAS5 in sodium Hydrosulfite Induced Hl-1 Cells in vitro. RT-qPCR was applied to measure the expressions of RNAs whereas the cell viabili...
Published in Rechtsmedizin (Berlin, Germany)
Bei letalem Verlauf einer SARS-CoV-2-Infektion kommt nach bisherigem Kenntnisstand eine Beteiligung mehrerer innerer Organe in Betracht. Im Vordergrund stehen pathologische Befunde im Lungengewebe, berichtet wird aber auch von direkt oder indirekt als Folge einer Infektion mit SARS-CoV‑2 auftretenden (histo-)pathologischen Befunden im Nierengewebe,...
Published in Journal of biomechanics
Although studied for many years, there remain continued gaps in our fundamental understanding of cardiac kinematics, such as the nature and extent of heart wall volumetric changes that occur over the cardiac cycle. Such knowledge is especially important for accurate in silico simulations of cardiac pathologies and in the development of novel therap...
Published in Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
BackgroundThe clinical application of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) T2 and T2* mapping is currently limited as ranges for healthy and cardiac diseases are poorly defined. In this meta-analysis we aimed to determine the weighted mean of T2 and T2* mapping values in patients with myocardial infarction (MI), heart transplantation, non-ischem...
Published in Korean circulation journal
It is difficult to estimate the depth of the focal source by activation mapping. The present study was performed to demonstrate the usefulness of a simple maneuver in estimating the depth of the focal activation source (S). A total of 44 sites (15 shallow, depth5.5 mm) were analyzed in 3 canine left ventricles under general anesthesia. A custom-mad...
Published in European Radiology Experimental
BackgroundTimely diagnosis of cardiac iron overload is important for children with transfusion-dependent anaemias and requires modern measure methods. Nowadays, myocardial iron quantification is performed by magnetic resonance (MR) breath-hold techniques, sensitive to respiratory motion and unfeasible in patients who are unable to hold their breath...
Published in European radiology
To investigate the diagnostic value and reproducibility of deformable registration algorithm (DRA)-derived mechanical dyssynchrony parameters in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients. The present study included 80 DCM patients (40 with normal QRS duration (NQRS-DCM); 40 with left bundle branch block (LBBB-DCM)) and 20 healthy volunteers. The balanc...
