Consistent patterns of rotational intracardiac flow have been demonstrated in the healthy adult human heart. Intracardiac rotational flow patterns are hypothesized to assist in the maintenance of ...

Researchers have for the first time been able to use information from computer tomography images to simulate the heart function of an individual patient. Some of the modeling methods they use have ...

The creation of a normal heart involves a genetic programme, mechanical stimuli, and the cellular processes that link them, but the influence of factors such as blood flow on heart development has ...

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of iTFlow® in blood flow analysis. The FDA approval is significant as it recognizes the safety and effectiveness ...

IN the past half century, since Rehn's early (1896) repair of a cardiac laceration, success in the restoration of wounded hearts has been a vivid chapter in surgical progress. Maguire and Griswold, 1 ...