A two-year-old child, after ingesting a small button battery, ended up in the hospital, first at Moscati in Aversa and then ...

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Patients can also succumb from significant infections due to a perforated esophagus or stomach, punctured lungs or ruptured trachea. The heart, lungs, great vessels (aorta, vena cava, pulmonary ...

A transcatheter aortic valve replacement platform was approved for severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis. Edwards Lifesciences’ TAVR platform is the first to be approved in this population.

This innovative technique provides new hope for patients with complex, life-threatening aortic aneurysms who previously had limited treatment options. Kim Baker, senior vice president of hospital ...

Asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis can now undergo transcatheter aortic valve replacement, thanks to the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the new indication for the balloon ...

These reactive oxygen species can damage cells and are found in important disease states, such as high blood pressure and aortic aneurysms. Aortic aneurysms are balloon-like swellings of the body ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Edwards Lifesciences' SAPIEN 3 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) platform for the treatment of patients with asymptomatic severe ...

Gastric cancer remains a major health challenge worldwide, with nearly 1 million new cases annually contributing to more than ...

or endovascular thoracic aortic stent graft implantation for lusorian artery aneurysms seems to be an additional and minimally invasive approach with promising midterm results. We therefore report ...

In addition, the continued use of bisphosphonates after 5 years is associated with an increased risk of otherwise rare subtrochanteric femoral fractures, osteonecrosis of the jaw, and esophageal ...

The semilunar valves stop the back flow of blood into the heart. There is a semilunar valve where the aorta leaves the left ventricle and another where the pulmonary artery leaves the right ventricle.