AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands -- Embolization of large spontaneous portosystemic shunts can relieve refractory hepatic encephalopathy and can keep many patients free of it for the long term as long as ...

February 20, 2007 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a vascular shunt for temporarily restoring blood flow to severely injured limbs, a molecular test to assess the risk for ...

MANCHESTER, England, April 28  Spontaneous cerebral blood clots appear to be a common pathology of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, and they may be targets for prevention or treatment ...

New successes in printing vascular tissue from living cells point to the accelerating pace of development of 3D-printing tissue — and eventually the ability to manufacture organs from small samples of ...

LeMaitre Vascular (NASDAQ:LMAT) acquires the assets of shunt and catheter maker Clinical Instruments International for $1.1M (catheters and shunts are LMAT's #2 and #3 products). The purchase price ...

Pulmonary vascular function is impaired with increased pulmonary blood flow (PBF). We hypothesized that a peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) agonist would mitigate this effect. An ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today cleared for U.S. marketing a vascular shunt, a medical device that can help save the arms and legs of soldiers critically injured in combat as well as ...

There is a persistent lack of effective treatments for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), so in this study, investigators examined the impact of an atrial shunt among patients ...

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is commonly known for its role in the adaptive metabolism of xenobiotics and in the toxic events that follow exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (dioxin ...

William Crenshaw, M.D., Washington Imaging Services, 1135 116th Ave. NE, Suite 260, Bellevue, 425.688.0100, Overlake Hospital Medical Center; University of Virginia Medical School, 1987; diagnostic ...