Infective endocarditis: What it is, symptoms and treatments
Imagine getting your tooth extracted and a bacterial infection develops afterwards that travels down to your heart.
Apr 25, 2023
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Imagine getting your tooth extracted and a bacterial infection develops afterwards that travels down to your heart.
Apr 25, 2023
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Using 3D imaging, researchers in the Cardiac Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found that patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) experiencing moderate to severe tricuspid regurgitation ...
Apr 11, 2023
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Researchers at the Thoracic Surgery research group, the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, have performed a nation-wide study of patients who underwent bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement in Sweden between 2003 ...
Mar 7, 2023
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The number of deaths and disabling strokes among patients at low surgical risk who were treated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) remained lower at three years, but not significantly lower, following the ...
Mar 6, 2023
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Transcatheter mitral valve repair for heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation can reduce the long-term rate of hospitalizations by almost 50 percent, and death by nearly 30 percent, compared with heart failure patients ...
Mar 5, 2023
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To diagnose aortic stenosis in a patient, a method known as Doppler echocardiography is used but has previously been shown to overestimate the values of pressure drop across aortic valves.
Oct 26, 2022
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The procedure had only ever been performed on pigs, doctors told Tayler and Nick Monroe as they huddled over their dying newborn son.
Sep 14, 2022
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A heart check-up is recommended in even apparently healthy people over 65 years of age before intermediate- or high-risk non-cardiac surgery, according to European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on cardiovascular ...
Aug 29, 2022
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A review of the latest research highlights the most reported symptoms of various cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), noting that men and women often experience different symptoms, according to a new American Heart Association ...
Aug 18, 2022
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Interventional cardiologists at the UW Medicine Heart Institute in Seattle recently performed a first-in-human procedure, successfully employing a catheter-delivered device to retrieve a benign tumor from inside a patient's ...
Aug 18, 2022
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