This limits diastolic relaxation of the heart and causes congestive ... BNP is released in response to myocardial wall stretch. In constrictive pericarditis, the scarred pericardium probits ...

Increased hydrostatic pressure causing a pericardial effusion is present in congestive heart failure ... aortic dissection or left ventricular free wall rupture after an MI can occur.

Start your dissection with the heart. Make a medial incision on the ventral surface of the head between the gill slits. Remove the skin from the ventral surface then slowly pull away the muscle tissue ...

Doctors at St. Barbara's Hospital in Sosnowiec, in Poland's southern Silesia region, say they have successfully used bovine pericardium—a membrane surrounding the heart of a cow—to reconstruct blood ...

Catheter Precision (VTAK) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PeriKard in a transaction involving the issuance of restricted VTAK ...

Catheter Precision, Inc. (NYSE American:VTAK), a U.S.-based innovative medical device company focused on electrophysiology products, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to ...

access to the pericardium is needed to drain the excess fluid. Access is also desirable for ablation for treating arrhythmias outside the heart wall. David Jenkins, CEO of Catheter Precision ...