First heart patients implanted with next-generation mechanical heart pump
NEW YORK (May 29, 2009) -- Three patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center were among the first in the United States to be implanted with a next-generation artificial heart pump called the DuraHeart Left-Ventricular Assist System. The surgeries took place earlier...Physical therapists test mechanical arm to help patients recover from stroke, traumatic brain injury
DALLAS Jan. 28, 2009 Physical therapists at UT Southwestern Medical Center are evaluating a new mechanical arm that allows people recovering from neurological injuries such as strokes and traumatic brain injury to enter a virtual world where they can repeatedly practice movements needed to regai...FDA approves HeartMate II mechanical heart pump for heart-failure patients
NEW YORK (April 25, 2008) -- Heart failure patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center were among the first to be implanted with the HeartMate II LVAS (Left Ventricular Assist System) -- a miniature mechanical pump that helps weak hearts pump blood -- that has now ...New research for mechanical support devices in pediatrics to be released at ISHLT
BOSTON, MA, April 9, 2008 New devices and research for mechanical circulatory support in pediatrics from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Pediatric Circulatory Support Program will be discussed at the International Society for Heart and Lun...ATS Medical Receives FDA Approval for AP360 Mechanical Heart Valve
Valve Offers Superior Hemodynamic and Implantability Characteristics MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ATS Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATSI ), manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products and services, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...2,500 Cases Completed With the Magnetic Irrigated Catheter
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... outpatient procedure. Mark Slaughter, M.D., Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UofL and Director of the Heart Transplant and mechanical Assist Device Program at Jewish Hospital, performed coronary artery bypass surgery on Jones on March 23. Jones suffered from congestive heart failure ...Medtronic Hall™ Mechanical Heart Valve
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The Particle Whisperers G. Volpe, S. Perrone, J. M. Rubi, and D. Petrov Physical Review E (forthcoming) As many parents know, it's often easier to keep your kids under control by exerting less authority rather than more. A child who fidgets uncontrollably in a confining booster seat, for ...Long-term use of mechanical ventilation contributes to the deterioration of human diaphragm muscle
PHILADELPHIA A new study by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine shows, for the first time in humans, that ventilators combined with diaphragm disuse contributes to muscle atrophy in the diaphragm in as little as eighteen hours. Muscle atrophy in the diaphragm is a major contributor of w...Videos extract mechanical properties of liquid-gel interfaces
Blood coursing through vessels, lubricated cartilage sliding against joints, ink jets splashing on paperliving and nonliving things abound with fluids meeting solids. However important these liquid/solid boundaries may be, conventional methods cannot measure basic mechanical properties of these in...New mechanical insights into wound healing and scar tissue formation
New research published today in the Journal of Cell Biology illuminates the mechanical factors that play a critical role in the differentiation and function of fibroblasts, connective tissue cells that play a role in wound healing and scar tissue formation. When we are injured, the body launch...Improving detection of nuclear smuggling goal of computer model of mechanical engineer
A professor at The University of Texas at Austin has received $1.9 million to expand a computer model that is already helping guide national decisions about placement of devices to detect nuclear smuggling attempts. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security provided the funds to improve the desi...First direct mechanical communication of mitochondria, cardiomyocyte nucleus shown
In a paper being presented in two American Physiological Society sessions at Experimental Biology 2006, a joint Estonian-French team demonstrated "for the first time that mitochondria are able to induce nuclear deformation, suggesting that mitochondria may mechanically regulate nuclear function." ...ATS Medical Confirms Excellent Durability of the ATS Open Pivot Mechanical Heart Valve
MINNEAPOLIS, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ATS Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATSI ), manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products and services, today announced it has obtained new in vivo data to support the outstanding wear characteristics of the ATS Open Pivot(R) Mecha...Physicists discover how fundamental particles lose track of quantum mechanical properties
(New Orleans, La.) In todays Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science, researchers report a series of experiments that mark an important step toward understanding a longstanding fundamental physics problem of quantum mechanics. The scientists presented their finding...Zeus Expands International Support With New Hires
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