Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...

Live Science spoke with Dr. Joe Alexander of NTT Research about "digital twins" and the development of an autonomous device for acute cardiac care. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Controlling immune cells' internal clocks helped reduce inflammatory damage in conditions like heart attack and sickle cell disease, a mouse study found. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) enhances the functional capacity of patients with heart failure (HF), but its effectiveness remains understudied in low-resource settings such ...

What Does the Heart Do? The heart is a pump, usually beating about 60 to 100 times per minute. With each heartbeat, the heart sends blood throughout our bodies, carrying oxygen to every cell. After ...

Introduction Patients with traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) continue to demonstrate poor outcomes. Although some prehospital studies suggest transfusion is associated with better ...

University Health Network (UHN) has completed Canada’s first heart transplant after death by circulatory criteria (DCC), marking a major milestone in cardiac care and organ transplantation. The ...

In another Canadian first, a multidisciplinary team from UHN’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and Ajmera Transplant Centre transplanted a heart which had stopped beating before donation. University Health ...

Background Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a leading cause of mortality following acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Some patients may require intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) or percutaneous ventricular ...

Fewer paediatric donors and available organs results in children who continue to die waiting for a needed organ transplant. Like many other areas of medicine, children’s health suffers because ...