Galen, a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher who lived during Roman times, described the heart as the body’s furnace, ...

Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, hydrology, engineering and physics. As a painter, his Mona Lisa and Last ...

Every year, more than 5 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with heart valve disease, but this condition has no ...

The heart's chambers are responsible for blood flow through the body. The atria are thin-walled ... Surgical and electrical anatomy of the inter-nodal and intra-atrial conduction system in the heart.

We explored the coronary anatomy and the resulting haemodynamics in patients with suspected but no significant CAD. Left Main (LM) bifurcations were 3D-reconstructed from 127 Computed Tomography ...

The optimal performance of the cardiovascular system, as well as the break-down of this performance with disease, both involve complex biomechanical interactions between the heart ... the shape of ...