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The heart-lung bypass machine that stills the heart while surgeons bypass an adult's clogged arteries or repair a baby's malformed heart can also trigger a potentially deadly inflammatory response.

Anyone who has gone through a major surgery, knows how tense the night before can be. There’s a lot of uncertainty and ...

Using heart-lung bypass machines with shorter circuits, for example, would limit the volume of blood-diluting solution needed to run the pump. Randomized trials to assess whether methods for ...

Seeking to bolster its development of a biocompatible graft that promises to reshape the future of cardiac bypass surgery, Medical 21, a medtech device company, today ...

Miranda Fleishhacker, CCP, is a Certified Clinical Perfusionist specializing in the operation and management of heart-lung bypass machines during open-heart surgery and other complex cardiovascular ...

It's long been documented that women have a slimmer chance of surviving heart bypass surgery compared to men, and researchers believe that they now know why. Women tend to be more vulnerable to blood ...

On a Tuesday morning in October 2021, Kulvinder Lall, a heart surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, began work in a brightly lit operating theatre. Lall, a slim 55-year-old, wore latex ...