BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Children born with hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain" must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure. While shunts do their job well, ...

ANAHEIM, CA—An intracardiac shunt device safely unloads pressure within the left atrium among patients with heart failure and preserved or mildly impaired left ventricular function, according to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Mark Hamilton, professor of neurosurgery at Cummings School of Medicine, holds the shunt used to help patient Jill Knaus. They ...

Using antimicrobial sutures to secure the shunt and close the wound significantly reduces the number of shunt infections arising during the first six months after surgery. Children born with ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - In a study of children with brain shunts at Children's of Alabama, a University of Alabama at Birmingham investigational biomarker outperformed the current "gold standard" test for ...

Data from Ex Vivo Shunt Model of Human Circulating Blood and Other Studies Published in European Heart Journal HONG KONG, OrbusNeich today announced that data from an ex vivo arteriovenous (AV) shunt ...