“…When the finite elasticity with distortions is used as setting for the passive and active mechanics of the cardiac tissue (Nardinocchi and Teresi, 2007;Cherubini et al, 2008;DiCarlo et al, (2009);Evangelista et al, 2011;Nobile et al, 2012;Nardinocchi et al, 2012), the fibred distortion model the muscle contraction. Of course, the geometry of the heart is very different from the cylindrical one; nevertheless, as the mechanics of the left ventricle is typically the focus of these studies and, from a topological point of view, a cylindrical tube and the ellipsoid which roughly models the left chamber are the same, a few interesting considerations may be done based on the present study.…”