POSTS TAGGED AS Cardiology

Minimally Invasive, Sutureless Aortic Valve Replacement

Using a replacement aortic valve that opens like an umbrella and anchors itself to the vessel’s walls, surgeons at [MORE]

Guidewire Development for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Neometrics Guidewires
One familiar assumption about the future of medicine is that any procedure which can be done on an [MORE]

Taking BP in Both Arms

Researchers at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (Exeter and Plymouth, England) studied hypertensive patients and found that [MORE]

Pacemaker Powered by the Heart Itself

Wouldn’t it be nice if a pacemaker’s battery didn’t have to be surgically replaced after ten years?  Researchers at [MORE]

Inventing the Pocket ECG

David E. Albert, MD
There are inventors, doctors and entrepreneurs, and occasionally, all three are in one body—such as David [MORE]

Wearable Defibrillator

LifeVest Wearable Defibrillator
It has now been three years since Zoll (Pittsburgh, PA) introduced the first wearable defibrillator, and this [MORE]

Ambulatory Heartbeat-Based Psycho-Mental Strain Monitoring

Matthias Weippert
Authors:  Matthias Weippert 1, Mohit Kumar 2, Annika Rieger 1, Steffi Kreuzfeld 1, Sebastian Neubert 3, Sabine Behrendt [MORE]

Heart Parts from Stem Cells, Sooner Than You Think

Doris Taylor PhD
Regenerative medicine took a leap when Doris Taylor, at the Univ. of Minnesota, grew a rat’s stem [MORE]

Ultrasound Activated Pacemaker

EBR Pacemaker
Startup company, EBR Systems (Sunnyvale, CA) is developing a new generation of pacemakers that rely on ultrasound signaling [MORE]

Light-Controlled Pacemaker

Light Controlled Pacemaker
Optogenetics (a term that Karl Deisseroth at Stanford coined in 2006) involves a gene transfer from algae [MORE]

Low-Power Radio Chip for Body-Area Sensing

Imec Transceiver
Two European companies-Imec (Leuven, Belgium) and Holst Centre (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) have collaborated to create an ultra-low power [MORE]

Ultra-Miniature Pacemaker

Most of today’s pacemakers have six to ten years of battery life before they have to be surgically replaced.  [MORE]

Continuous Flow Artificial Heart

Drs. Frqazer and Cohn with improved artifical heart
NPR recently reported a story about two Texas Heart Institute physicians developing [MORE]

Carbon Nanotubes Regenerate Heart Tissue

Nanopatch for the Heart
While regenerative medicine researchers work on growing new hearts from collagen scaffolds and induced pluripotent stem [MORE]