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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CARDIAC hypertrophy commonly occurs with disturbances that increase the work of the heart. These include valvular defects, intracardiac or other vascular shunts and hypertension of either the ...

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 ...

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is commonly known for its role in the adaptive metabolism of xenobiotics and in the toxic events that follow exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (dioxin ...

Placement of an atrial shunt device intended to reduce pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) during exercise in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) does not reduce ...