News tagged with cardiac chamber

New genetic cause of cardiac failure discovered

Over the course of a lifetime, the heart pumps some 250 million liters of blood through the body. In the order to do this, the muscle fibers of the heart have to be extremely durable. The research group headed by Dr. Wolfgang ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Researchers create first human heart cells that can be paced with light

In a compact lab space at Stanford University, Oscar Abilez, MD, trains a microscope on a small collection of cells in a petri dish. A video recorder projects what the microscope sees on a nearby monitor. The cells in the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

When singing mice choose a mate, a skillful song gets the gal

Like rock stars of the rodent world, the flashiest performers of a Central American mouse species get the most attention from the ladies, a University of Florida study shows.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cutting-edge robotics to treat cardiac arrhythmias

Cardiac experts who fix arrhythmias, which are electrical problems of the heart, must perform complex catheter procedures while the heart is still beating in order to pinpoint where an electrical malfunction is taking place. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Are ICDs up to par with patients living longer?

Most patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) who have an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) now live more than seven years and those ICD patients with hereditary heart disease ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Measuring oxidative stress can predict risk of atrial fibrillation

Measuring oxidative stress may help doctors predict the risk of developing atrial fibrillation, the most common heart beat irregularity. Research from Emory University School of Medicine has identified a connection between ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Taking mathematics to heart

Did you know that heart attacks can give you mathematics? That statement appears on the web site of James Keener, who works in the mathematics of cardiology. This area has many problems that are ripe for unified ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Two hearts beating as one

This Valentine's Day, Tyson Smith woke up with a brand new outlook and two beating hearts — his old failing heart and a newly transplanted heart. "I can tell that I am getting stronger every day," said Smith.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Putting the freeze on atrial fibrillation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Eugene Tsuji was biking on a trail in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Aptos, Calif., when his heart monitor went bananas.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Healthy' patients at high risk of cardiac death identified

(PhysOrg.com) -- The way the heart responds to an early beat is predictive of cardiac death, especially for people with no conventional markers of cardiovascular disease, according to new research from Washington University ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Skin cells help to develop possible heart defect treatment in first-of-its-kind study

Using skin cells from young patients who have a severe genetic heart defect, Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have generated beating heart cells that carry the same genetic mutation. The newly created human ...

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created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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