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Computer assessment of patients for transcatheter aortic valve replacementUniversity College London | Professor Silvia Schievano
Diseases of the heart valves are common and, when serious, require treatment with open-heart surgery. Recently, a non-surgical technique for aortic valve replacement has been developed. Despite its success, only patients considered at high ...
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Can we prevent heart tissue damage after treatment for a heart attack?Newcastle University | Professor Ioakim Spyridopoulos
Professor Ioakim Spyridopoulos and his team at the University of Newcastle are studying how heart tissue becomes damaged after stents are fitted. When a coronary artery that supplies the heart becomes blocked, doctors open the blocked ar...
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How pulmonary arterial hypertension develops and progressesUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Amer Rana
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood to the lungs, causing damage to the right side of the heart. Symptoms include breathlessness or tiredness, and can cause death from heart...
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Diabetes and cardiovascular disease – exploring the linkUniversity of Leeds | Dr Stephen Wheatcroft
The majority of people with diabetes die from heart and circulatory disorders so continuing to search for new ways to prevent and treat diabetes is central to tackling cardiovascular disease. Dr Stephen Wheatcroft and BHF Professor Mark Kea...
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Are histone proteins involved in heart complications in sepsis?University of Liverpool | Dr Guozheng Wang
Sepsis and septic shock are the main cause of death in patients in intensive care. Patients with sepsis, a widespread infection, often die because their blood pressure and heart function drop significantly, and they can’t supply enough bloo...
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How are bones and the heart connected?
There are 206 bones in the human body – ranging in size from the tiniest, found in your ear, to the largest, in your thigh. We have just one heart – roughly the size of your fist – in our chest and continuously pumping about eight pints of blood. 206 bones and only one heart. But how are the two connected? Does the quality of your bones affect your heart?
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Does extra fat around your belly raise the risk of dementia?
Find out if carrying extra weight around the waist or arms can increase your risk of dementia or Parkinson's disease.
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Regenerative medicine: the quest to repair damaged hearts
Discover the latest research into regenerative medicine, from heart patches to gene therapy.
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Reducing the use of animals in heart attack researchManchester Metropolitan University | Dr Sarah Jones
Heart attacks and most strokes occur when blood clots block one or more critical arteries in the heart or brain. These conditions kill millions of people each year around the world. Cutting this death toll requires researchers to study in e...
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A new method to study thrombosis that uses fewer animalsUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Matthew Harper
Dr Matthew Harper is supervising a PhD student who will develop a new research model to study thrombosis (when blood clots form inside blood vessels) that is less reliant on animals. Heart attacks and strokes are caused by blood clots b...