Researchers and clinicians from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences have for the first time conducted a shape analysis of the fetal aorta to detect a congenital heart defect before birth. Their research ...
Dec 21, 2022
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A new Johns Hopkins study shows that data gathered from wearable activity trackers can be used to obtain several metrics associated with the user's general physical health and cardiovascular health status. While these sensors ...
Nov 17, 2022
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Viruses and bacteria have a very long history. Because viruses can't reproduce without a host, they've been attacking bacteria for millions of years. Some of those bacteria eventually became mitochondria, synergistically ...
Oct 31, 2022
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Living in a community where there is minimal access to nutritious foods—often called a "food desert"—may increase the risk of heart attack, stroke or early death for people living with peripheral artery disease (PAD), ...
Oct 31, 2022
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On her first visit to the hospital to check on her newborn patient, the pediatrician detected a heart murmur. A few days later, at Cix Greene's first office visit, the doctor didn't hear it. It was almost eight years later, ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)—a type of high blood pressure that affects arteries in the lungs and in the heart—have improved significantly over the past 15 to 20 years and researchers at the University ...
Oct 17, 2022
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You may be surprised to learn that the medication sildenafil—better known by its brand name Viagra—has other medical purposes aside from treating male erectile dysfunction. It can also be used to treat lung diseases that ...
Sep 29, 2022
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A device known as the BASHIR Endovascular Catheter (THROMBOLEX, Inc.) significantly reduces the size of blood clots lodged in the pulmonary arteries, leading to improvement in heart function in patients with pulmonary embolism, ...
Sep 19, 2022
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Matters of the heart can sometimes be resolved from within. Pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, caused by a thickening of the arterial walls and narrowing of the lumen can be fatal if left untreated. The use of vasodilators ...
Sep 7, 2022
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Earlier detection of pulmonary hypertension in the community and expedited referral of high-risk or complex patients are recommended in the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) Guidelines ...
Aug 26, 2022
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