"Essentially what we found is that the blood pressure does not improve after the procedure, and neither does the vascular function, although the actual coarctation itself has been relieved," Dr Sylvia ...

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Receive the the ...

With this in mind, several noninvasive and invasive imaging and functional tools have been adopted for use in renal intervention to try and improve the prediction of which lesion and which patient ...

Blood pressure is the amount of pressure that your blood exerts on the blood vessels in your body. As your heart beats, it contracts and relaxes, pushing blood out of the heart to the arteries, which ...

A sizeable proportion of patients diagnosed with moderate aortic stenosis (AS) will have hemodynamic parameters on echocardiography that don’t match the standard definition, and many may be at greater ...

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Find out more about a less invasive option following pulmonary artery banding in children and its midterm outcomes.