One of the most widespread and critical heart diseases is heart valve disease, and when the valves cease functioning, the heart will not be able to pump blood anymore. During the past several decades, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - As a frame of reference, each animal bite you’ll read about will be measured in pounds per square inch, or PSI. We’ll use the human bite as a baseline, which averages 162 PSI ...

Throughout the history of civilization, significant value has been seen in the presence of a complete set of teeth, both for functional and aesthetic reasons. This has driven people all over the world ...

If you’re building or upgrading a gaming PC in 2025, a powerful graphics card is more essential than ever. Modern titles demand serious GPU horsepower, whether you’re chasing smooth 4K performance, ...

What is an open aortic valve replacement? An open, invasive aortic valve replacement is a surgery to replace a poorly working aortic valve with an artificial valve. The heart has 4 valves. These ...

Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) occurs when an implanted prosthetic valve is too small for the patient; severe PPM is defined as an indexed effective orifice area (iEOA) <0.65 cm 2 /m 2 following ...

Background—Surgeons traditionally avoid the use of “small” aortic prostheses because of the potential for residual left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and persistent transvalvular gradients.