Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Over the past decade, the frequency of aqueous shunt surgery has risen dramatically. Studies have shown us the ...

PHOENIX -- The functional and quality-of-life benefits of creating a left-to-right shunt in the interatrial septum to offload failing hearts held up over the midterm in a series of small feasibility ...

Infants with various forms of congenital heart disease require a stable source of blood flow to their lungs in order to survive until a more definitive operation can be performed. In a recent study, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Dyspnea due to left atrial pressure overload during exercise is a hallmark of heart failure with preserved or ...

On Fridays and some Tuesdays, neurosurgeons in Kuopio place ventriculo-peritoneal shunts. During the procedure, they collect biopsies of skin, fat, muscle, right frontal cortex, intraventricular CSF.

ATLANTA, GA—The implantation of a Ventura (V-Wave) interatrial shunt failed to improve prognosis or reduce symptoms across a wide range of patients with heart failure (HF), results from a new ...

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 ...

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 ...