AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands -- Embolization of large spontaneous portosystemic shunts can relieve refractory hepatic encephalopathy and can keep many patients free of it for the long term as long as ...

MANCHESTER, England, April 28  Spontaneous cerebral blood clots appear to be a common pathology of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, and they may be targets for prevention or treatment ...

February 20, 2007 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a vascular shunt for temporarily restoring blood flow to severely injured limbs, a molecular test to assess the risk for ...

LeMaitre Vascular (NASDAQ:LMAT) acquires the assets of shunt and catheter maker Clinical Instruments International for $1.1M (catheters and shunts are LMAT's #2 and #3 products). The purchase price ...

Ventura's permanent interatrial shunt was designed to shunt blood from the left to right atrium to improve symptoms in ...

Dr. Alison S. Witkin: A 21-year-old male college student was evaluated in the cardiology clinic at this hospital, before the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, because of progressive dyspnea. When the ...

There is a persistent lack of effective treatments for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), so in this study, investigators examined the impact of an atrial shunt among patients ...

An FDA advisory panel gave a unanimous verdict for an interatrial shunt in heart failure: no way.

New successes in printing vascular tissue from living cells point to the accelerating pace of development of 3D-printing tissue — and eventually the ability to manufacture organs from small samples of ...