Corvia Medical today announced three-year positive results from its clinical trial of its Corvia Atrial Shunt.

ATLANTA -- An interatrial shunt failed to provide a clinical benefit to people with heart failure (HF) overall in the RELIEVE-HF trial, though actual harm or benefit seemed to hinge on the patient ...

Children born with defects that impair the heart's lower chambers undergo a series of invasive surgeries early in life. The first surgery includes implantation of a plastic tube called a shunt to ...

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced today that it completed the previously announced acquisition of V-Wave.

In an address to the American Surgical Association, Alexis Carrel discusses the innovative idea of shunt procedures between chambers of the heart. His experiments with animals are the precursor to ...

A team of cardiologists shared tips and tricks for clinicians to address the pitfalls they may encounter when conducting ...

A peritoneovenous shunt is a surgically inserted tube that ... Grade III or IV hepatic encephalopathy, cardiac disease, portal vein thrombosis, noncompliance with sodium restriction, or the ...

Patients with left to right cardiac shunts on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or less than 4 kg body weight were excluded. PiCCO 2 hemodynamic variables were indexed to body surface area (BSA ...

Recent paper investigates the effects of dexmedetomidine on oxygenation and pulmonary shunt fraction in high-risk pediatric ...

Evidence suggests that patent ductus arteriosus comprises anywhere from 5% to 10% of all congenital heart disease.

In the final days of the most significant Catholic gathering since the 1960s, the prospect of women being ordained appears ...