Abstract: Most clinical studies use a 2D parasternal long-axis view to measure natural shear waves after valve closure for myocardial stiffness assessment ... a more complex wave propagation pattern ...

Cardiac muscle tissue, or myocardium, is a type of muscle tissue that forms the heart. It contracts and releases involuntarily and keeps the heart pumping blood around the body. The human body ...

Just as importantly, clinical trials have also strongly suggested that the early administration of aspirin can substantially reduce the size of the myocardial infarction. This can greatly diminish the ...

Seizure-related cardiac arrhythmias are frequently reported and have been implicated as potential pathomechanisms of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). We attempted to identify clinical ...

Calcium homeostasis plays an essential role in maintaining excitation–contraction coupling (ECC) in cardiomyocytes, including calcium release, recapture, and storage. Disruption of calcium homeostasis ...

Cardiac fibrosis plays an indispensable role in cardiac tissue homeostasis and repair after myocardial infarction (MI). The cardiac fibroblast-to-myofibroblast differentiation and extracellular matrix ...

With the advancements of molecular genetics and the identification of mutations in the genes encoding the cardiac ryanodine receptor and cardiac calsequestrin 2 in patients with CPVT, the central role ...

duke-nus.edu.sg Despite prompt reperfusion by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI), the mortality and morbidity of patients presenting with an acute ST-segment elevation myocardial ...

Correspondence to Dr Kristian Kragholm, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Sdr. Skovvej 15, Aalborg 9000, Denmark; kdks{at}rn.dk ...

A pioneer of cardiac surgery Dr KM Cherian, credited with performing the country’s first heart bypass surgery in 1975, died on Saturday. He was 82. He is remembered for performing challenging heart ...

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BENGALURU: India has lost its "Big Daddy" of cardiac surgery. Dr K. M. Cherian, the man whose hands restored hope and whose scalpel rewrote the history of heart care, breathed his last in Bengaluru.