These are the inlet valves to the two ventricles, the mitral valve on the left side and the tricuspid valve on the right.

Mitral annular calcification with valve dysfunction remains a challenging syndrome. Operative risk is high, and available transcatheter therapies are limited. This study describes our initial ...

Highlighted text has been updated as of November 5, 2024. The COAPT trial showed that transcatheter mitral valve approximation using the MitraClip on a background of maximally tolerated GDMT was ...

Doctors were convinced that a Norwegian man was simply fat for 12 years — but his growing belly was actually expanding with a 60-pound malignant tumor. He was diagnosed with obesity and even got ...

Thomas Kraut was told he was just fat until doctors discovered a massive tumor in his belly. Doctors were convinced that a Norwegian man was simply fat for 12 years — but his growing belly was ...

Tumor suppressor genes make proteins that regulate the growth of cells, and they play an important role in preventing the development of cancer cells. When tumor suppressor genes are altered or ...

That said, only about 10 percent of people now have the classic triad symptoms of blood in the urine, flank pain, and a flank mass at the time of diagnosis, and when these are present, the tumor has ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine have generated structural maps of tumors in three dimensions. These 3D cell atlases, published in Nature, reveal tumor organization at the single-cell level and ...

A new analysis led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has revealed detailed 3D maps of the internal structures of multiple tumor types. These cancer atlases ...

Studying the evolution of cancer malignancy in space and time provides clues that are crucial for understanding how tumors develop, how they evade the immune system, and how they resist therapy ...

Avishai treated cancer with Ly6a antibodies, and amazingly the tumors were significantly reduced. Moreover, cancers resistant to known treatments reacted substantially to Ly6a antibodies." ...