Leonid Shmuylovich

Load-independent index of diastolic filling: model-based derivation with in vivo validation in control and diastolic dysfunction subjects.

E-wave deceleration time may not provide an accurate determination of LV chamber stiffness if LV relaxation/viscoelasticity is unknown.

The kinematic filling efficiency index of the left ventricle: contrasting normal vs. diabetic physiology.

Is left ventricular volume during diastasis the real equilibrium volume, and what is its relationship to diastolic suction?

Transmitral flow velocity-contour variation after premature ventricular contractions: a novel test of the load-independent index of diastolic filling.

Stiffness and relaxation components of the exponential and logistic time constants may be used to derive a load-independent index of isovolumic pressure decay.

The pressure recovery ratio: The invasive index of LV relaxation during filling. Model-based prediction with in-vivo validation.

Determination of early diastolic LV vortex formation time (T*) via the PDF formalism: a kinematic model of filling.

Automated method for calculation of a load-independent index of isovolumic pressure decay from left ventricular pressure data.

Point: Left ventricular volume during diastasis is the physiological in vivo equilibrium volume and is related to diastolic suction.

The E-wave delayed relaxation pattern to LV pressure contour relation: model-based prediction with in vivo validation.

Last word on point: Counterpoint: Left ventricular volume during diastasis is the physiological in vivo equilibrium volume and is related to diastolic suction.

Vortex formation time-to-left ventricular early rapid filling relation: model-based prediction with echocardiographic validation.

The thermodynamics of diastole: kinematic modeling-based derivation of the P-V loop to transmitral flow energy relation with in vivo validation.

The diastolic function to cyclic variation of myocardial ultrasonic backscatter relation: the influence of parameterized diastolic filling (PDF) formalism determined chamber properties.