ReviewJournal of cardiovascular translational research2015
Vortex formation time is not an index of ventricular function.
Review in Journal of cardiovascular translational research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Left ventricular vortex formation time: emerging clinical applications and limitations.Singapore medical journal · 2026Review
- Effect of Food Intake on Vortex Formation Time as a Measurement of Diastolic Left Ventricular Function.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The Effect of Dobutamine Stress Testing on Vortex Formation Time in Patients Evaluated for Ischemia.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2021Article
- Optimal vortex formation time index in mitral valve stenosis.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2021Article
- Clinical-pathological correlations of BAV and the attendant thoracic aortopathies. Part 1: Pluridisciplinary perspective on their hemodynamics and morphomechanics.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2019Article
- Left ventricular vortex formation time in elite athletes.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2019Article
- Left ventricular vortex formation time in elite athletes: novel predictor of myocardial performance.Heart Asia · 2019Article
- Challenges and Controversies in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Clinical, Genomic and Basic Science Perspectives.Revista espanola de cardiologia (English ed.) · 2018Article
- Implementing genome-driven personalized cardiology in clinical practice.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2018Review
- Genomic translational research: Paving the way to individualized cardiac functional analyses and personalized cardiology.International journal of cardiology · 2017Review
- Vortex ring behavior provides the epigenetic blueprint for the human heart.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Mechanotransduction Mechanisms for Intraventricular Diastolic Vortex Forces and Myocardial Deformations: Part 2.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2015Article
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Abstract
The diastolic intraventricular ring vortex formation and pinch-off process may provide clinically useful insights into diastolic function in health and disease. The vortex ring formation time (FT) concept, based on hydrodynamic experiments dealing with unconfined (large tank) flow, has attracted considerable attention and popularity. Dynamic conditions evolving within the very confined space of a filling, expansible ventricular chamber with relaxing and rebounding, and viscoelastic muscular boundaries diverge from unconfined (large tank) flow and encompass rebounding walls' suction and myocardial relaxation. Indeed, clinical/physiological findings seeking validation in vivo failed to support the notion that FT is an index of normal/abnormal diastolic ventricular function. Therefore, FT as originally proposed cannot and should not be utilized as such an index. Evidently, physiologically accurate models accounting for coupled hydrodynamic and (patho)physiological myocardial wall interactions with the intraventricular flow are still needed to enhance our understanding and yield diastolic function indices useful and reliable in the clinical setting.
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