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According to an American Heart Association release, a fetal intervention team successfully devised a pioneering in-utero procedure recently used during a first-of-its-kind fetal procedure to fix a potentially deadly vascular malformation in the brain, with hopes of avoiding heart failure and brain injury after birth, the groundbreaking procedure has been published in the journal Stroke …
Researchers have developed a device holding promise to halt progression of heart attack to heart failure with a small device that attaches directly to damaged heart tissue to deliver therapy, as published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. After heart attack a cascade of events leading to heart failure begins, damage to the area in the …