Patients' expectations and experiences with the usage of a self-care application for heart failure: A qualitative interview study.

Background: Heart failure (HF) is a chronic disease characterized by high mortality and healthcare expenditures. Digital health solutions, including mobile health applications (apps), offer opportunities to enhance patients' self-care and quality of life. This qualitative study aimed to explore expectations, experiences, and usage behaviour of HF-patients regarding a self-care app ( app).

Procurement and preservation of neonatal porcine cardiac tissue.

The porcine and human heart are remarkably similar in cardiac physiology and biochemistry. Translational research involving the porcine biomedical model is becoming increasingly applicable for the study of human cardiac function in health and disease. Presently, few protocols exist for collecting experimentally viable cardiac tissue from large animal models, particularly during neonatal maturation.

The W792R HCM missense mutation in the C6 domain of cardiac myosin binding protein-C increases contractility in neonatal mouse myocardium.

Missense mutations in cardiac myosin binding protein C (cMyBP-C) are known to cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The W792R mutation in the C6 domain of cMyBP-C causes severe, early onset HCM in humans, yet its impact on the function of cMyBP-C and the mechanism through which it causes disease remain unknown. To fully characterize the effect of the W792R mutation on cardiac morphology and function in vivo, we generated a murine knock-in model.