Researchers have found a way to take a pediatric patient's skin cells, reprogram the skin cells to function as heart valvular cells, and then use the cells as part of a tissue-engineered pulmonary ...
The findings come on the heels of the US Food and Drug Administration approving the Harmony system (Medtronic) in March as the first nonsurgical heart valve to treat pulmonary valve regurgitation in ...
$2M Grant to Speed PolyVascular’s Pediatric Catheter-Delivered Pulmonary Valve Replacement to Market
Powered by SBIR grant funding, PolyVascular advances options for children in need of pulmonary valve replacement with its polymeric stent-mounted valve small enough for the tiniest patients. The ...
EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands & ZURICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xeltis, a clinical-stage company with the most advanced polymer-based restorative cardiovascular devices, today announced that it has started the ...
Pulmonary atresia is a congenital (present at birth) heart defect where the pulmonary valve that regulates blood flow from the right ventricle to the lungs is absent/poorly developed and therefore ...
Pulmonic regurgitation is when blood leaks back into the heart from the pulmonary artery due to weakness in the pulmonary valve. It happens when a pulmonary valve does not close properly. The ...
RAPID advances in surgery have made an understanding of the significance of any potentially correctable valvular defect as important as the ability to establish an exact diagnosis. As an isolated ...
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year ...
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