Publications by Georgios Rovas

Machine learning-enabled estimation of cardiac output from peripheral waveforms is independent of blood pressure measurement location in an in silico population

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas, Lydia Aslanidou, Sokratis Anagnostopoulos

Monitoring of cardiac output (CO) is a mainstay of hemodynamic management in the acutely or critically ill patient. Invasive determination of CO using thermodilution, albeit regarded as the gold standard, is cumbersome and bears risks inherent to catheteri ...

2025

Testing an inverse modeling approach with gradient boosting regression for stroke volume estimation using patient thermodilution data

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas, Vasiliki Bikia

Stroke volume (SV) is a major indicator of cardiovascular function, providing essential information about heart performance and blood flow adequacy. Accurate SV measurement is particularly important for assessing patients with heart failure, managing patie ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2025

Evaluation of a novel compliance-matching aortic graft in a swine model

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas, Vasiliki Bikia

The mismatch of elastic properties between the arterial tissue and the vascular grafts, commonly called compliance mismatch, is responsible for many deleterious post-operative complications. Currently, there is an absence of prostheses that conform with th ...

2025

Left atrial wall shear stress correlates with fibrosis in patients with atrial fibrillation

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas

Left atrial wall fibrosis has an important role in atrial fibrillation (AF) because of the abnormal electrophysiological properties of the fibrotic areas. However, the mechanisms behind the development of left atrial fibrosis are not well understood. Here, ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Compliant vascular grafts and methods of use

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas

Compliant vascular grafts for implantation in the vasculature are provided. The compliant vascular grafts are designed to expand longitudinally and radially within a blood vessel, such as an artery, and is expected to be particularly well suited for treati ...

2024

Novel theory and potential applications of central diastolic pressure decay time constant

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas, Sokratis Anagnostopoulos, Vasiliki Bikia, Patrick Segers

Central aortic diastolic pressure decay time constant ( ) is according to the two-element Windkessel model equal to the product of total peripheral resistance (R) times total arterial compliance (C ). As such, it is related to arterial stiffness, which has ...

2024

Apparatus for non-invasively computing cardio-vasculature parameters using morphology of uncalibrated pressure wave signal

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas, Vasiliki Bikia

Systems and apparatus are provided for using a non-invasively monitored uncalibrated pressure signal from a patient to compute cardiac output and other cardio-vascular parameters, thereby providing safe, effective, reliable and low cost monitoring of patie ...

2024

On the similarity between aortic and carotid pressure diastolic decay: a mathematical modelling study

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas, Sokratis Anagnostopoulos, Vasiliki Bikia

Aortic diastolic pressure decay (DPD) has been shown to have considerable pathophysiological relevance in the assessment of vascular health, as it is significantly affected by arterial stiffening. Nonetheless, the aortic pressure waveform is rarely availab ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Design and computational optimization of compliance-matching aortic grafts

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas, Vasiliki Bikia

Introduction: Synthetic vascular grafts have been widely used in clinical practice for aortic replacement surgery. Despite their high rates of surgical success, they remain significantly less compliant than the native aorta, resulting in a phenomenon calle ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Compliance-matching vascular grafts with personalization potential

Georgios Rovas

Aortic diseases are characterized by dire prognosis and inadequate diagnosis, owing to their insidious yet lethal nature. Aortopathies, namely aortic aneurysms and dissections, along with certain congenital diseases, might necessitate surgical replacement ...

EPFL2023