Harvesting hay has gone from a labor-intensive practice of using sickles and wooden forks to balers that compress hay into round and square bales.

A meandering magnetorheological damper's produced damping force or pressure drop is correlated with the inputted current. Although the relationship can be considered proportional, the predicted ...

Aortic valve surgery is the preferred procedure for replacing a damaged valve with an artificial one. The ValveTech robotic platform comprises a flexible articulated manipulator and surgical interface ...

Bhopal: A bentall surgery, involving the replacement of both the aorta and aortic valve with artificial grafts was successfully conducted at AIIMS Bhopal's department of cardiothoracic and ...

Objective To determine the early and long-term outcomes of conventional aortic root (ARR) and valve-sparing root replacement (VSRR) using a standard perioperative and operative approach. Methods We ...

The treatment for severe AS is AVR; however, the inflammatory state will persist in half of the patients in the short term. 8 Among them are prosthetic material (titanium), 9 the haemodynamic flow ...

Prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) is present when the effective orifice area of the inserted prosthetic valve is too small in relation to body size. Its main haemodynamic consequence is to generate ...

JACC. Published online June 16, 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2025.05.035 A new multisociety expert consensus document (ECD) published in JACC addresses the evolving use of cardiac CT imaging and how to ...

These include relative hypovolemia due to preoperative fasting, general anesthesia, mechanical ventilation, and surgical manipulation of the heart, which can significantly alter cardiac and valve ...

A runner who had open heart surgery has broken a Guinness World Record. Alex Hunt, from Cambridge, ran the Stevenage marathon in three hours and six minutes. The publishers of the famous record ...