News tagged with mechanical circulatory support
Artificial pump effectively backs up failing hearts
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Patients with severe heart failure can be bridged to eventual transplant by a new, smaller and lighter implantable heart pump, according to a just-completed study of the device. Results of this third-generation heart assist ...
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Study looks at heart pump for children
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Texas Children's Hospital in Houston will lead a 12-hospital, 36-month clinical trial of a German-manufactured pediatric heart pump.
The secrets of the lowly ground beetle could lead to better tissue engineering
Sep 03, 2009 |
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The first engineering study of the internal fluid flows of insects, creatures that have evolved efficiently over millions of years, may provide engineers and scientists with new ideas for how to build better ...
Proteins as Parents
Jul 31, 2006 |
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So that we can move, and so that our heart beats, we need proteins with special mechanical properties, "molecular springs", which give our tissues the necessary strength and take care of elasticity and tensibility.
Blood may help us think
Oct 15, 2007 |
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MIT scientists propose that blood may help us think, in addition to its well-known role as the conveyor of fuel and oxygen to brain cells.
Billion-year revision of plant evolution timeline may stem from discovery of lignin in seaweed
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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Land plants' ability to sprout upward through the air, unsupported except by their own woody tissues, has long been considered one of the characteristics separating them from aquatic plants, which rely on water to support ...
Triple cocktail to tackle stroke risk
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 17, 2008 |
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Scientists at The University of Nottingham are to investigate whether giving recovering stroke patients a triple cocktail of medicines could reduce their chances of a further attack.
Video shows nanotube spins as it grows (w/ Videos)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New video showing the atom-by-atom growth of carbon nanotubes reveals they rotate as they grow, much like the halting motion of a mechanical clock's second hand. Published online this month ...
Major improvements made in engineering heart repair patches from stem cells (w/ Video)
Oct 07, 2009 |
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University of Washington (UW) researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts.
Most H1N1 patients with respiratory failure treated with oxygenating system survive illness
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Despite the severity of disease and the intensity of treatment, most patients in Australia and New Zealand who experienced respiratory failure as a result of 2009 influenza A(H1N1) and were treated with a system that adds ...
Withdrawal of life support often an imperfect compromise
Oct 07, 2008 |
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Intensive Care Unit (ICU) doctors seeking to balance the complex needs of their patients and the patients' families may make an imperfect compromise, withdrawing life support systems over a prolonged period of time. This ...
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