Mechanisms of heart-valve disease often mimic processes observed in embryonic and early childhood development, including activation of valvular interstitial cell (VIC) phenotypes and remodeling of ...
Researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland have identified a key regulator gene for the formation of cardiac valves - a process crucial to normal embryonic heart development. These ...
Fraunhofer IOF, startup NovaPump, and Jena University Hospital’s “pump cage” is cut out of a thin metal tube by laser. On the occasion of World Heart Day on September 29, the team reviewed the history ...
Background Aortic valve calcification (AVC) is a disease process driven by inflammation and lipid infiltration, serving as a ...
Background Patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) are at high risk of mortality, regardless of symptom status. Despite ...
PolyVascular, a medtech company developing a non-surgical heart valve for children with congenital heart disease, has obtained $2 million in funding from non-profit pediatric initiative, CobiCure ...
A new type of synthetic heart valve could soon be available to help treat children living with chronic rheumatic heart disease. Researchers at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson ...
Clinicians at Piedmont Heart Institute at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital performed the first HighLife Trans-septal Mitral Valve Replacement in the United States on July 13, as part of an early feasibility ...