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'Beating' heart machine expedites development of new tools for heart surgery (w/Video)
A new machine developed at North Carolina State University makes an animal heart pump much like a live heart after it has been removed from the animal's body, allowing researchers to expedite the development ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 12, 2009 |
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Old antidepressant offers promise in treating heart failure
A team of Johns Hopkins and other researchers have found in animal experiments that an antidepressant developed over 40 years ago can blunt and even reverse the muscle enlargement and weakened pumping function associated ...
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Jan 07, 2010 |
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Texas Children's discharges history-making patient
The wait is over for 16-year-old Francesco "Frank" De Santiago. On January 29, De Santiago received a donor heart in a nine-hour transplant operation at Texas Children's Heart Center De Santiago made news ...
Feb 13, 2010 |
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New Zealand scientists develop wireless heart pump
New Zealand scientists have developed the technology for a wireless heart pump they say could save thousands of lives and offer an alternative to heart transplants.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Enzyme doesn't act alone in atrial fibrillation
(June 17, 2009) - An overactive enzyme is behind a leaky calcium channel that plays a role in the development of atrial fibrillation, which is the most common cardiac arrhythmia that is responsible for a third of all strokes. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
Nov 25, 2009 |
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New heart pump could benefit thousands
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although they have neither a pulse nor a measurable blood pressure, people with advanced heart failure lived longer and felt better when implanted with a new small pump that circulates their blood, according ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Comparison of medications for heart failure finds difference in risk of death
In a comparison of the angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) candesartan and losartan, used by patients with heart failure, candesartan was associated with a lower risk of death at 1 and 5 years, according to a study in ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 11, 2011 |
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'Smallest artificial heart pump' implanted: German hospital
Doctors in Germany have successfully implanted the world's smallest artificial heart pump, billed as more effective and unobtrusive than earlier devices, a hospital said Monday.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 17, 2009 |
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