DALLAS, – High-resolution magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) may offer a risk-free way to identify narrowed vein grafts after bypass surgery, according to a report in today’s Circulation: Journal of ...

Scientists have completed the first North American pilot trial of endoscopic heart surgery performed with assistance from a robot. At the one-year follow-up, all 19 patients who underwent the ...

Professors Guillermo Ameer and Cheng Sun contributed to work that points to a new approach for heart bypass grafts.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who had delayed kidney graft function after a simultaneous heart and kidney transplant had worse ...

"The possibility of recovery of the heart is just like magic," said Professor Magdi Yacoub of Imperial College London, who treated Hannah from the beginning and co-authored the journal paper. "A heart ...

Researchers reported promising preclinical findings for a prototype of a vascular graft designed as a replacement for a damaged or blocked coronary artery, which supplies blood to the heart. In a ...

A field correction has been implemented for the HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist system (Abbott) due to the potential for twisting of the device’s outflow graft connecting the pump to the aorta.

CABG is a type of open-heart surgery specialists use to treat a heart attack when arteries that bring blood to the heart narrow or get blocked. Cholesterol and fatty deposits known as plaque build up ...

Successful engraftment of organ transplants has traditionally relied on preventing the activation of recipient (host) T cells. Once T-cell activation has occurred, however, stalling the rejection ...

The risks that limit survival after heart transplantation include allograft rejection and coronary vasculopathy. In the May 17 New England Journal of Medicine, Girish Shirali and colleagues report ...

Surgeons at Intermountain Health are testing a new approach to treat the ascending aorta — a critical artery once considered ...

With an organ transplant, hematopoietic donor cells are transferred to the recipient. To study the relevance of the resulting microchimerism for allograft acceptance, we analyzed a rat model of ...