Background: Approximately 20,000 permanent pacemakers (PPMs) are implanted annually for bradycardia or atrioventricular (AV) block after cardiac surgery. Little is known about the long-term pacing ...

Jan. 22, 2025 — Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ ...

CHANGES in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) differ based on coronary artery disease (CAD) presentations and have varied associations with ...

Blood is propelled out of the left ventricle, across the aortic valve, and out to the body. You may hear about a concept called the cardiac cycle. Simply, the “cardiac cycle” is a way doctors have of ...

A heart-lung machine is a piece of medical equipment that temporarily takes over the work of the heart and lungs, circulating oxygenated blood throughout the body. Also called a cardiopulmonary bypass ...