News tagged with pulmonary regurgitation

Catheter-delivered Valve May Help People with Heart Defects Avoid Multiple Surgeries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Children born with certain heart defects have impaired blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery leading to the lungs, requiring implanted devices (known as right-ventricular ...

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Henry Ford Hospital: New left-side heart pump improves right-side heart function

A state-of-the-art heart pump, designed to maintain a continuous flow of blood in end-stage cardiac patients with damage to the left side of the heart, also improves function on the right side of the heart, according to ...

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created May 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients receive heart valve replacements without surgery using high-tech device

Interventional cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center now offer a minimally-invasive transcatheter valve replacement procedure for patients with congenital heart disease that doesn’t involve open heart surgery.

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created Apr 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Fasting before surgery not necessary

A Dallas researcher thinks its time to end the 60-year-old practice of forcing patients to fast before having surgery.

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created Jul 27, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (15) | comments 0


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