That combo of two medicines, fenfluramine and phentermine, damaged the heart valves of some of the people who took it.
The oil pressure will force it up into the heart of the stack of valves.
The echo is also useful in looking at the function of the valves of the heart.
He grew sicker, and apparently, the strep infection eventually attacked the valves of his heart, a condition known as rheumatic heart disease.
The company has pioneered a method that can install new heart valves via a catheter through the groin.
Companies are in the process of testing a device that will replace lung volume reduction surgery for patients with emphysema and repair heart valves by going through the skin.
On to the shelves will be put the valves and other components that form the computational heart of the pioneering machine.
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Redux and Pondimin caused damage to heart valves when used with the diet drug phentermine as part of fen-phen.
The missing link between EADS, which is better known for making planes, helicopters and aerospace systems, and Carpentier--who won a Lasker Prize last year for his work on prosthetic heart valves--is largely due to the late Jean-Luc Lagardere.
The most controversial of the latest ObamaCare taxes is the Medical Device Tax that hits entrepreneurial firms making equipment such as heart valves and hip replacement parts.
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The letter will inform physicians that Pradaxa is now contraindicated in patients with mechanical heart valves.
FORBES: Pradaxa To Be Contraindicated In Patients With Mechanical Heart Valves
Scientists at Wake Forest have successfully engineered more than 30 tissues and organs, including miniature livers, heart valves -- even printing organs such as human skin and kidneys -- in the lab.
The FDA action follows a similar decision by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency, which announced last week that it had recommended that Pradaxa be contraindicated in patients with prosthetic heart valves.
FORBES: Pradaxa To Be Contraindicated In Patients With Mechanical Heart Valves
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