At the University of Minnesota, researchers keep hearts alive outside the body for hours. Medtronic uses them to develop ...

In 2022, more than 941,600 Americans died from cardiovascular disease. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new report. The American Heart ...

Members of the team spoke with the News about their experiences performing the BATMAN procedure and its future implications.

Jan. 30, 2025 — People who regularly floss their teeth (one or more times per week) may lower their risk of stroke caused by a blood clot traveling from the heart and a stroke associated with an ...

Rebecca P. Winsett, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. Judy C. Martin, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, College of ...

Rarely, the source of emboli are the iliac veins, renal veins, right heart, or upper extremity veins; the clinical circumstances usually point to these unusual sites. As pulmonary embolism is preceded ...

When the right ventricle doesn’t pump well, blood backs up in the blood vessels that carry blood from the rest of the body back to the heart. This can push fluid out of the veins and into other tissue ...

surgical pulmonary embolectomy and the currently emerging catheter-directed therapies. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42024493303. Collaborators Heart Team Study Group: Marco Zimarino, Francesco ...