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What is pulmonary atresia?
Pulmonary atresia is a type of congenital heart condition, which means a defect that develops in the womb before your baby is born
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Community Resuscitation Champion
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A stem cell that promotes new blood vessel growthQueen's University Belfast | Professor David Grieve
Diseases that are caused by reduced blood flow, such as heart attacks, strokes and some forms of blindness, affect millions of people each year and are major causes of ill health and death. Dr David Grieve from Queen’s University Belfast is...
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Preventing rejection of a transplanted heartUniversity of Oxford | Professor Kathryn J Wood
Transplant rejection results from an immune response against the donor tissue, for example, a transplanted heart. Regulatory T cells, white blood cells that dampen down the immune response, are being investigated as a potential treatment to...
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Improving our understanding of how RNA controls blood vessel growthUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker
BHF Professor Andrew Baker from the University of Edinburgh is working with Dr Igor Ulitsky from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel to identify what controls how blood vessel cells form and function, and how they can regenerate and...
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Heart murmurs - causes, symptoms & treatment
A heart murmur is an unexpected or unusual sound in your heart. It is usually harmless, but sometimes relates to a problem with your heart.
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Imaging dangerous fatty plaques using antibodiesImperial College London | Dr Ramzi Khamis
Consultant cardiologist Dr Ramzi Khamis is developing a new way to image the content of fatty plaques that harden and narrow arteries, causing a condition called atherosclerosis. If these plaques rupture, a blood clot can form inside the ar...
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Investigating molecules that may cause congenital heart diseaseUniversity College London | Professor Ian C Zachary
Each day in the UK, 12 babies are diagnosed with congenital heart defects, which are abnormalities in the structure of the heart or its blood vessels. Congenital defects occur when the heart fails to develop normally in the embryo . Many m...
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Working out how a protein called BAMBI affects blood clottingImperial College London | Dr Isabelle Salles-Crawley
Dr Isabelle Salles-Crawley and her colleagues at Imperial College London are studying BAMBI, a protein found on the surface of the endothelial cells that line our blood vessels. BAMBI protein on endothelial cells has been shown to be impor...