A study led by scientists at King's has revealed how the physical orientation of the heart inside the chest dramatically ...

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The mesh surface is the left ventricle. LV, left ventricle; P, pulmonary valve; RV, right ventricle; T, tricuspid valve. See Sheehan and Bolson14 for explanation of reconstruction method. Nearly all ...

JenaValve announced today that it began patient enrollment in the ARTIST study evaluating its Trilogy heart valve system.

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When female athletes collapse on the playing field, they are less likely to be resuscitated than men: How gender differences ...

Intuitive Surgical announced today that the FDA cleared the latest advanced energy instrumentation for its da Vinci systems.

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The Notch signaling pathway is an ancient and highly conserved signaling pathway that controls cell fate specification and tissue patterning in the embryo and in the adult. Region-specific endocardial ...

The valves were frozen and stored in liquid nitrogen for intervals ranging from 23 to 380 days. Blocks of tissue cut from the central area of one leaflet, and including some adjacent arterial wall and ...

Valvar heart disease is a paradigm of the changing aetiology of human disease. In particular, we have witnessed dramatic changes in the incidence of rheumatic heart disease (fig 1); such changes have ...

Heart sounds reflect the function of heart valves and are important for the diagnosis of heart-related diseases. Automated heart sound diagnosis plays an key role in the early detection of ...