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Imagine if your T-shirt or blouse were intelligent enough to detect the condition of your heart and also conveys the same to your doctor without u even knowing that. This might sound like lines from a popular science fiction but researchers at University.
Imagine how painful it is for a thin tube with a camera sent from the groin to inside the heart. Imagine the risks involved; of the catheter rupturing or bruising any of the delicate blood vessels. Now think of a heart patient getting simply a less...
A clinical trial headed by a researcher from the University of Calgary has supported the use of a special bra from women who undergo heart surgery. The unique bra doesn't have any metal clasps that might interfere with the X-rays and offers more...
Medtronic has received approval from the Europe's CE Mark for its Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve developed for the congenital heart patients to treat pulmonary valve insufficiency. The new technique is one of its kind as it is non-surgical and...
Biotronik already holds the title of having the world's only implant that is capable of sending the ECG data automatically in case of heart rhythm disorder. Now, it has announced the first implantations of its new Lumax VR-T and Lumax DR-T ICDs.
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Siemens has announced a new small intracardiac ultrasound catheter in order to ease the procedures in smaller patients. The new Catheter, Acuson AcuNav 8F is 33% smaller than that of the current AcuNav 10F so that the left heart applications in smaller...
Most of the times, many heart patients are deprived of the heart transplants because of their age factor or critical conditions. The critically ill patients have a reason to smile now since FDA has given the Humanitarian Device Exemption approval for...
Here is some good news for the cardiac patients as the European scientists have developed a 'Smart' Shirt to monitor the heart patients anywhere and anytime.
The Smart shirt slots in stainless steel threads to record an electrocardiogram. The data is...
Boston Scientific Corporation has revealed a new Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) system to improve diagnosis and cure of heart disorders and blood vessels. Their iLab™ Ultrasound Imaging System will enable the physicians to view the images inside t
Dr Thomas Force, who teaches medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, has revealed that the cancer-fighting drug, Gleevec can also be a cause of heart failure in leukemia patients under treatment.
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