The flesh-eating livestock pest New World screwworm has advanced closer to the U.S. border with Mexico, the U.S. Department ...

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 Bho.

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 ...

Background The evaluation of long-term inflammatory response and function in postoperative patients with aortic valve replacement (AVR) deserves special analysis because it is important to try to ...

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 ...

A new multisociety expert consensus document (ECD) published in JACC addresses the evolving use of cardiac CT imaging and how to best use it to assess different types of prosthetic heart valve (PHV) ...

5. Mechanical ventilation, by increasing intrathoracic pressure and alveolar pressure, and the potential application of positive end-expiratory pressure decrease preload and can alter cardiac and ...

Alex Hunt is officially the fastest person to run a marathon with an artificial heart valve.