Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes more than 50% of deaths in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). Clinical studies suggest that kidney-derived factors contribute to CVD ...

Milan, 18 September 2023 - A mathematical and computational model of the human heart entirely developed at Politecnico di Milano and designed for studying coronary artery disease. This is the focus of ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Brad Hedlund has been in and out of appointments with cardiologists dealing with heart failure over the last decade. Hedlund explained his symptoms as “I had no energy. I had no ...

From artificial heart valves to cellular transplants, new treatments for cardiovascular ailments are being developed every day. To model how they work, researchers need a reliable way to observe the ...

Impulse Dynamics, developer of a pacemakerlike device that helps strengthen the pulses of people suffering from heart failure, has received a big boost in funding to grow its commercial reach and ...

A team of researchers have discovered that a mutation in a ribosomal protein found specifically in heart and skeletal muscle leads to impaired cardiac contractility in mice. The mutation was found to ...