Grey's Anatomy star Eric Dane has heartbreakingly revealed that he has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ALS, which is known in some countries as motor neurone disease ...

This opening allows extra blood from the aorta to enter the baby’s pulmonary artery. Depending on the size of this blood vessel, the baby’s heart and lungs may have to work harder to pump blood. Small ...

Mount Sinai. What is the aorta?. American Heart Association. Your aorta: The pulse of life. University of Florida Health. Aorta Anatomy. Wang X, Carpenter H, Ghayesh M, et al. A review on the ...

Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is an indolent, potentially fatal disease, which progresses at variable rates that are influenced by pathogenesis and patient characteristics. We conducted a systematic ...

The aortic valve is a door that separates the heart from the aorta, the largest artery that carries blood to different organs of our body. As we grow older, the valve becomes dysfunctional.

Left main coronary artery. This artery sends blood to the left side of the heart muscle. This includes the left ventricle and left atrium. It divides into these branches: Left anterior descending ...

TABLE 1. Material parameters for aortic model. Based on the commercial transcatheter heart valve products TaurusOne (Peijia Medical Inc. China), the self-expandable valve model (TO) used in this study ...

However, the functional role of cardiomyocyte-derived BDNF in heart pathophysiology is not yet fully known. Recent studies revealed that BDNF-TrkB pathway plays a critical role to maintain integrity ...