Research has also explored the technical aspects of performing transseptal puncture (TSP) in patients with existing septal occluder devices during catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation.

[16] Different latest generation devices, mainly made with Nitinol and synthetic tissue may be used nowadays in order to close secundum ASD including the most widely used Amplatzer Septal Occluder ...

1 Department of Vascular Surgery, Xing'an League People’s Hospital, Ulanhot, China 2 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China Background: Aorto-caval ...

7 Paul C Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China ...

Heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart can’t pump as well as it should. This may happen when the heart muscle becomes weak or stiff. As a result, it doesn’t deliver enough blood to ...

Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are increasingly common across the heart failure population. Right ventricular failure (RVF) is a feared complication that can occur in the early post-operative ...

1 Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 Department of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Correspondence ...

Fitbit will pay a civil penalty of $12.25 million after it "knowingly failed to immediately report" a defect in its Ionic smartwatches that caused dozens of people to sustain burn injuries, the ...

Multi-scale Porous Materials Center, Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies & School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, P. R. China Center for ...