Patients with heart failure who had a small shunt inserted between the heart's left and right atria did not see any significant benefits overall compared with those who received a placebo procedure ...

Study shows no benefit for heart failure overall but suggests different effects in those with preserved versus reduced ejection fraction Patients with heart failure who had a small shunt inserted ...

An FDA advisory panel gave a unanimous verdict for an interatrial shunt in heart failure: no way. All 15 members of the Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee on ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Interatrial shunt implant lowered HF hospitalization risk for patients with HFrEF vs. placebo. However, patients ...

For babies born with a certain heart defect, implantation of a "shunt" is essential to their survival. A new type of shunt can be expanded using light after it's been implanted, potentially ...

Children born with defects that impair the heart's lower chambers undergo a series of invasive surgeries early in life. The first surgery includes implantation of a plastic tube called a shunt to ...

Feb. 1 (UPI) --People with the most common form of heart failure may benefit from a new, minimally invasive cardiac implant device, particularly if they exercise, a study published Tuesday by the ...

In the largest multicenter clinical trial of children undergoing early-stage surgery for single-ventricle heart defects, differences in intraoperative management did not significantly affect ...