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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since its conception in 1965, medical experts have debated the use of a shunt to mitigate symptoms of a brain condition that can severely debilitate a patient’s life. A new study may finally put all ...

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 ...

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 ...

HINGHAM, Mass., Sept. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Having successfully concluded an independent in-vitro laboratory study and published the positive results earlier this year, the operational ...

PATIENTS with cirrhosis and varices often die after esophageal hemorrhage. In a retrospective analysis of the records of 106 patients appearing in the years 1918–1938 only 30 per cent survived for a ...