Heart Pumping Articles & Analysis: Older
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Saves Life When you donate an organ, you save the life of an individual who really needs it. Just imagine, if your Heart, lungs, or kidneys stopped functioning, how would you feel? It is tough to live a healthy life. ...
Increased blood pressure causes your heart to work harder just to pump a normal amount of blood through your body. ...
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is currently affecting over half of heart failure patients. ...
If the heart pumps normally but is too stiff to fill properly, the condition is known as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). ...
These devices include the Reitan catheter pump (RCP, a 10F collapsible device with a rotational propeller), the Procyrion Aortix pump (an 18F axial flow pump), and the Second Heart Assist pump (an aortic stent-based pump). Both the Reitan and Second Heart Assist systems employ a ...
Tab Lassiter – an employee of global vaccines leader CSL Seqirus – is about to receive a second transplant in an ongoing battle with a heart condition. He shares his story to explain why it’s critical to spread the word about heart health. Tab Lassiter once spent eight months resting anxiously in a hospital bed with cardiomyopathy, a ...
Many people who know about CPR, think of it as “mouth to mouth”. Many of us learned CPR in school, or for a job when we were younger. But did you learn about hands only CPR vs mouth to mouth? For many of us, the rescue breaths seemed like an integral part of reviving someone. However, medical professionals have found that when we look at hands only CPR vs mouth to mouth, the results ...
Cardiomyopathy involves abnormalities in the muscle fibers of the heart, which contract and relax each time the heart beats. The prevalence and severity of symptoms can vary from patient to patient; however, for many, the condition is progressive, meaning it will make it harder and harder for the heart to pump blood over time. ...
While heart attack, cardiac arrest and heart failure can sometimes be related, they’re actually three very different types of cardiac emergencies. ...
As the number of patients suffering from heart disease has increased over the years, so too has the need for heart transplants. Unfortunately, the global supply of donor hearts remains limited, and not everyone who needs a heart transplant will receive a matching donor heart in time. ...
Being overweight can put stress on the heart and cause buildup in arteries, increasing the risk for heart disease and stroke. ...
The “world’s first in-heart microcomputer” and an endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) suture-delivery catheter were recognized Saturday as the best innovations of CRT 2021 Virtual. ...
February 1, Prague/ Udalosti. The epidemic called “Chronic Heart Failure” affects up to half a million Czechs. An innovation being tested at Prague’s Na Homolce Hospital could be a turning point in the care of these patients. A special implant adjusts the shape of the left ventricle, which may allow the heart to work better and may stop the progression of the ...
–September 25, 2019–Ancora Heart, Inc., a company developing a novel therapy to address heart failure, today announced results from an interim analysis of heart failure patients treated in the CorCinch FMR study, a U.S. early feasibility study evaluating the safety of the investigational AccuCinch® Ventricular Repair System ...
As the website describes, ‘like your heart pumping blood to every part of your body, the ocean connects people across the Earth, no matter where we live’, directly affecting the health of the population across the globe. ...