Cardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland, Wash., company with a technology to treat heart valve malfunction, has raised $53 million ...

The first biohybrid model of human ventricles has been used to answer a centuries-old question. Unlike other organs, the heart cannot repair itself after injury, so being able to engineer an entire ...

Scientists used echocardiography — images of the heart obtained with an ultrasound scan — and found that, of all study ...

During right heart catheterization, oxygen saturations are frequently measured from different cardiac chambers in order to identify left to right shunts. If a ventricular septal defect is present ...

VPDs with very short coupling intervals developing during an acute stage of myocardial infarction would predict the development of early cycled reentry, potentially culminating in VF, and requires ...

Patients and families need to know how these extraordinary treatments might change how they feel about themselves and the ...

Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart beat (with three or more consecutive heart beats at least 100 beats per minute) that originates from one of the ventricles in the heart.

Congestive refers to fluid buildup in organs which results in symptoms such as shortness of breath and swelling in the legs, ...

This paper defends the thesis that the heart can also develop sports injuries at the ventricular level. We will elaborate on our hypothesis, originally put forward in 2003, that intense endurance ...

A protocol for transitioning patients with heart failure and a left ventricular assist device to a stepdown unit from the ICU ...