Ali Amr, Elham Kayvanpour, Farbod Sedaghat-Hamedani, Tiziano Passerini, Viorel Mihalef, Alan Lai, Dominik Neumann, Bogdan Georgescu, Sebastian Buss, Derliz Mereles, Edgar Zitron, Andreas E Posch, Maximilian Würstle, Tommaso Mansi, Hugo A Katus, Benjamin Meder
The search for a parameter representing left ventricular relaxation from non-invasive and invasive diagnostic tools has been extensive, since heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HF-pEF) is a global health problem. We explore here the feasibility using patient-specific cardiac computer modeling to capture diastolic parameters in patients suffering from different degrees of systolic HF. Fifty eight patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy have undergone thorough clinical evaluation, including cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), heart catheterization, echocardiography, and cardiac biomarker assessment...
August 2016: Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics