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Cardiovasc Res
May 2023
Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France.
Aims: Degenerative mitral valve dystrophy (MVD) leading to mitral valve prolapse is the most frequent form of MV disease, and there is currently no pharmacological treatment available. The limited understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms leading to MVD limits our ability to identify therapeutic targets. This study aimed to reveal the main pathophysiological pathways involved in MVD via the multimodality imaging and transcriptomic analysis of the new and unique knock-in (KI) rat model for the FilaminA-P637Q (FlnA-P637Q) mutation associated-MVD.
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May 2022
Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Milan, Italy.
Background: Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common valve disorder characterized by fibro-calcific remodeling of leaflets. Recent evidence indicated that there is a sex-related difference in AS development and progression. Fibrotic remodeling is peculiar in women's aortic valves, while men's leaflets are more calcified.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNat Med
February 2022
Department of Cell Research and Immunology, Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Bioprosthetic heart valves (BHVs) are commonly used to replace severely diseased heart valves but their susceptibility to structural valve degeneration (SVD) limits their use in young patients. We hypothesized that antibodies against immunogenic glycans present on BHVs, particularly antibodies against the xenoantigens galactose-α1,3-galactose (αGal) and N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc), could mediate their deterioration through calcification. We established a large longitudinal prospective international cohort of patients (n = 1668, 34 ± 43 months of follow-up (0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJACC Cardiovasc Imaging
March 2020
Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec/Québec Heart & Lung Institute, Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada. Electronic address:
Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of sex on myocardial fibrosis as assessed by using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in aortic stenosis (AS).
Background: Previous studies reported sex-related differences in the left ventricular (LV) remodeling response to pressure overload in AS. However, there are very few data regarding the effect of sex on myocardial fibrosis, a key marker of LV decompensation and adverse cardiac events in AS.
Circulation
March 2017
From Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (R.C., J.H.); Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (M.B.); Department of Surgery Heart and Vascular Center, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville (I.L.K.); and Department of Surgery, Duke University Medicine, Durham, NC (P.S.).
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