Mahwish Jabeen

Myocardial Fibrosis in Pediatric Heart Disease

Myocardial fibrosis is increasingly recognized as a central determinant of adverse cardiac remodeling and long-term cardiovascular outcomes in children with congenital and acquired heart disease. Once considered an irreversible consequence of chronic myocardial injury, fibrosis i...

Left Atrial Myopathy as a Phenotypic Axis in HFpEF: Implications for Pulmonary Hypertension, Exercise Intolerance, and Targeted Therapy

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a highly heterogeneous syndrome characterized by impaired ventricular relaxation, systemic inflammation, and multisystem cardiovascular dysfunction. Despite growing recognition of HFpEF as a major global health burden, eff...