Bart Spronck

Oct 15, 2024 | nature.com | Bart Spronck |James Sharman |Mekayla Forrest

AbstractPreeclampsia is a leading complication of pregnancy that lacks accurate tools for its early prediction. Improved risk stratification tools early in pregnancy would enable more efficient allocation of limited healthcare resources while ensuring that pregnant women destined to develop preeclampsia receive appropriate care. This brief perspective highlights the current state of first-trimester preeclampsia prediction.

Oct 18, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Alessandro Giudici |Jason M. Szafron |Abhay B. Ramachandra |Bart Spronck

AbstractPURPOSE: Through their contractile and synthetic capacity, vascular smooth muscle cells play a key role in regulating the stiffness and resistance of the circulation. To model the contraction of blood vessels, an active stress component can be added to the (passive) Cauchy stress tensor. Different constitutive formulations have been proposed to describe this active stress component.

Oct 3, 2023 | obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Bart Spronck |James Sharman |Stella S. Daskalopoulou

Corresponding Author Stella S. Daskalopoulou Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Correspondence Stella S. Daskalopoulou, Department of Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Glen Site, 1001 Décarie boulevard, M1.2230, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada.