By his fifth decade of life, Mayor Doug Vitale had faced more than a dozen surgeries, the first one as a 1-year-old baby, to ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 8 – A new non-surgical heart procedure is proving to be a game changer, especially for patients with critical underlying conditions. Traditionally, such patients were treated ...

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“A heart murmur? How could I have a heart murmur? I didn’t think too much about it. But before they could do the surgery, they had to check with a cardiologist,” Lienau recalled. Back in ...

NEW YORK, Feb 6: From “mewing” and “slaying” to “sigma” and “rizz,” the lingo of Gen Alpha is baffling parents more than ever before. “When we had slang, there were only a few phrases that we had to ...

Recovery from open heart surgery, both in the hospital and beyond, is a long, involved process. The duration depends on the specific medical issue being treated, with a minimum of six weeks to be ...

‘Chemotherapy, surgery to remove my left breast and the affected lymph nodes, breast reconstruction and then radiotherapy – all in the space of a year – meant I had really been through the ...

The University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) has provided free cardiac procedures to 22 patients, valued at over N10 million for each patient. The initiative, which took place in ...

Our editors also may be in touch with follow-up questions. An elevated heart rate as a result of physical activity, such as going for a run, is common, but what should your heart rate look like at ...

3D printing is useful for surgical decision making and simulation, computer-aided desing of surgical baffles and patches, hands-on surgical training and cardiovascular morphology teaching for medical ...

Patients Patients surviving after Fontan surgery and evaluated at Boston ... to the pulmonary artery via an intra-atrial baffle or extracardiac conduit, has now become the preferred technique.

Correspondence to Dr Kristian Kragholm, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Sdr. Skovvej 15, Aalborg 9000, Denmark; kdks{at}rn.dk ...