Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
Biography
Matthias Karck is a professor in department of cardiac surgery at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany. His reserach interest includes cardiac and heart valve disease with experimental laboratory large animal projects focused on the investigation of left ventricular and cardiac mechanics, bioenergetics, and LV and mitral valve physiology and pathophysiology. Current he is aimed at understanding the mitral valve and subvalvular mitral apparatus and transmural LV wall strains, thickening, and myolaminar fiber-sheet mechanics.