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Adipose Stem Cell-Seeded Decellularized Porcine Pericardium: A Promising Functional Biomaterial to Synergistically Restore the Cardiac Functions Post-Myocardial Infarction

  • Hussein M. El-Husseiny,
  • Eman A. Mady,
  • Tatsuya Usui,
  • Yusuke Ishihara,
  • Toshinori Yoshida,
  • Mio Kobayashi,
  • Kenta Sasaki,
  • Danfu Ma,
  • Akira Yairo and
  • Ryou Tanaka
  • + 5 authors
Vet. Sci.2023, 10(11), 660;https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci10110660

17 November 2023

Myocardial infarction (MI) is a serious cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death globally. Hence, reconstruction of the cardiac tissue comes at the forefront of strategies adopted to restore heart functions following MI. In this investiga...

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The Utility of Intraventricular Pressure Gradient for Early Detection of Chemotherapy-Induced Subclinical Cardiac Dysfunction in Dogs

  • Katsuhiro Matsuura,
  • Kenjirou Shiraishi,
  • Ahmed S. Mandour,
  • Kotomi Sato,
  • Kazumi Shimada,
  • Seijirow Goya,
  • Tomohiko Yoshida,
  • Pitipat Kitpipatkun,
  • Lina Hamabe and
  • Ryou Tanaka
  • + 5 authors
Animals2021, 11(4), 1122;https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11041122

14 April 2021

Early detection of doxorubicin (DXR)-induced cardiomyopathy (DXR-ICM) is crucial to improve cancer patient outcomes and survival. In recent years, the intraventricular pressure gradient (IVPG) has been a breakthrough as a sensitive index to assess ca...

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Monitoring Beta-Blocker Therapy in Adolescents with Exercise-Induced Intraventricular Gradients Using Exercise Stress Echocardiography

  • Nuno Cotrim,
  • Hugo M. Café,
  • Jorge Guardado,
  • Pedro Cordeiro,
  • Rui Martins,
  • Hortense Cotrim and
  • Carlos Cotrim
Biomedicines2025, 13(8), 2035;https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines13082035

21 August 2025

Background: Treadmill exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) is both feasible and safe in the pediatric population. Although regional wall motion abnormalities (RWMAs) have limited diagnostic utility, Doppler studies frequently demonstrate significan...

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Effect of Loading Changes on the Intraventricular Pressure Measured by Color M-Mode Echocardiography in Rats

  • Akira Yairo,
  • Ahmed S. Mandour,
  • Katsuhiro Matsuura,
  • Tomohiko Yoshida,
  • Danfu Ma,
  • Pitipat Kitpipatkun,
  • Konosuke Kato,
  • Chieh-Jen Cheng,
  • Hussein M. El-Husseiny and
  • Ryou Tanaka
  • + 5 authors
Diagnostics2021, 11(8), 1403;https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11081403

3 August 2021

Evaluation of diastolic function is a pivotal challenge due to limitations of the conventional echocardiography, especially when the heart rate is rapid as in rats. Currently, by using color M-mode echocardiography (CMME), intraventricular pressure d...

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Differences in the Impact of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction on Intraventricular Pressure Gradient in Feline Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

  • Miki Hirose,
  • Momoko Watanabe,
  • Aki Takeuchi,
  • Aimi Yokoi,
  • Kazuyuki Terai,
  • Katsuhiro Matsuura,
  • Ken Takahashi and
  • Ryou Tanaka
Animals2024, 14(22), 3320;https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14223320

19 November 2024

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common form of cardiomyopathy in cats, and heart failure occurs as diastolic dysfunction progresses. HCM in cats is broadly classified as non-obstructive and obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, depending on...

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Non-Invasive Assessment of the Intraventricular Pressure Using Novel Color M-Mode Echocardiography in Animal Studies: Current Status and Future Perspectives in Veterinary Medicine

  • Ahmed S. Mandour,
  • Ahmed Farag,
  • Mahmoud A. Y. Helal,
  • Gamal El-Masry,
  • Salim Al-Rejaie,
  • Ken Takahashi,
  • Tomohiko Yoshida,
  • Lina Hamabe and
  • Ryou Tanaka
Animals2023, 13(15), 2452;https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13152452

29 July 2023

The assessment of diastolic function has received great interest in order to comprehend its crucial role in the pathophysiology of heart failure and for the early identification of cardiac events. Silent changes in the intraventricular flow (IVF) dyn...

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An Innovative Artificial Intelligence Classification Model for Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Utilizing Cardiac Biomechanics Derived from Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  • Liqiang Fu,
  • Peifang Zhang,
  • Liuquan Cheng,
  • Peng Zhi,
  • Jiayu Xu,
  • Xiaolei Liu,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Ziwen Xu and
  • Kunlun He
Bioengineering2025, 12(6), 670;https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering12060670

19 June 2025

Significant challenges persist in diagnosing non-ischemic cardiomyopathies (NICMs) owing to early morphological overlap and subtle functional changes. While cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) offers gold-standard structural assessment, current morpholo...

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Evaluation of Changes in the Cardiac Function before and after Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair in Healthy Dogs: Conventional and Novel Echocardiography

  • Kenta Sasaki,
  • Danfu Ma,
  • Ahmed S. Mandour,
  • Yusuke Ozai,
  • Tomohiko Yoshida,
  • Katsuhiro Matsuura,
  • Aki Takeuchi,
  • Chieh-Jen Cheng,
  • Hussein M. El-Husseiny and
  • Ryou Tanaka
  • + 4 authors
Animals2022, 12(1), 56;https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12010056

28 December 2021

Mitral valve regurgitation is a common canine heart disease. Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER) is a transcatheter, edge-to-edge mitral repair device that uses a hybrid approach. No detailed information has been published on the hemodynamic eff...

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