A new Yale study shows that some patients being treated for severe heart failure with a battery-operated pump saw significant improvement after additionally using neurohormonal blockade (NHB) drug therapy.
Nov 19, 2019
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Specialist orthotics care for patients with mobility issues varies significantly depending on where they live, new research by Staffordshire University reveals.
Oct 25, 2019
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Women are less likely than men to receive a mechanical heart pump that is becoming the norm for people with advanced heart failure, according to new research.
Sep 13, 2019
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Dr. David Adlam, associate professor and interventional cardiologist in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Piyal Samara-Ratna, Mechanical Engineer in the Space Research Centre, have joined forces to combine medical ...
Sep 2, 2019
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Severely ill patients with advanced heart failure who received a novel heart pump—the HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device (LVAD)— suffered significantly fewer strokes, pump-related blood clots and bleeding episodes ...
Mar 18, 2019
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Researchers developed a new digital stethoscope that combines precision sensors, electrocardiogram technology and machine learning applications into one piece of equipment to better detect heart ailments and problems that ...
Oct 26, 2018
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Physicians have been training to hear heart problems with stethoscopes for 200 years. Now engineers at Duke University are training computers hooked to the device's digital descendants to hear heart problems undetectable ...
Sep 21, 2018
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Felix Aguirre has always been close to his family. The oldest of four siblings, he's known for putting the needs of his relatives above his own.
Mar 26, 2018
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At two years of follow-up, severely ill patients with advanced heart failure who received a novel heart pump fully implantable within the chest experienced no malfunctions requiring replacement or removal of the device for ...
Mar 12, 2018
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When heart failure patients receive a heart pumping device known as a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), their caregivers seem to suffer, too - at least initially, according to research in Journal of the American Heart ...
Mar 7, 2018
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