Aortic valve insufficiency, also called aortic regurgitation, happens when the aortic valve doesn’t fully close, causing blood to flow backward into the left ventricle. This forces your heart to work ...

As the central part of the circulatory system, the heart is responsible for pumping blood, supplying oxygen and nutrients, and removing metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide from all the tissues in ...

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Compared with immediate PCI alone, the combination of mechanical left ventricular (LV) unloading using a transvalvular micro-axial flow pump (TV-mAFP) plus delayed PCI did not reduce infarct size in ...