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Heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation benefit from minimally invasive procedure
EurekAlert! - 23 Sep 2018 06:00
(NewYork-Presbyterian) A multicenter clinical trial has found that a minimally invasive procedure called transcatheter mitral valve repair significantly reduced hospitalizations and mortality for heart failure patients w...
New research heralds a blood test for drowsy driving
EurekAlert! - 23 Sep 2018 06:00
(University of Surrey) Scientists have developed a blood test to tell whether you have skipped a night's sleep, bringing us a step closer to developing a test for driver sleepiness. The breakthrough could help police ide...
Prosthetic valve mismatches common in transcatheter valve replacement, ups risk of death
EurekAlert! - 23 Sep 2018 06:00
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) In the largest multi-institutional study to date, led by researchers from Penn Medicine, the team found that among patients who underwent a transcatheter aortic valve repla...