After losing his fingers in a work-related accident, and not being satisfied with digital prosthetics, maker Ian Davis has created his very own mechanical prosthetic fingers which are capable of ...

Oregon-based mechanical engineer Ian Davis is in the midst of building an extraordinary prosthetic hand. The partial hand—in the videos and pictures below—is stunningly intricate and now, after two ...

In patients undergoing aortic-valve or mitral-valve replacement, either a mechanical or biologic prosthesis is used. Biologic prostheses have been increasingly favored despite limited evidence ...

LOS ANGELES — Aortic mechanical valves are associated with better survival than bioprosthetic valves in patients aged 60 years or younger, showed 12-year survival data from a large surgical database.

The present study included over 26,500 patients who received a prosthetic heart valve between 1995 and 2012, 940 of whom developed prosthetic valve endocarditis. The risk of infection in the ...

The following report presents 3 cases of intravascular hemolysis that followed aortic-valve replacement with cusps composed of Dacron cloth impregnated with silicone rubber. 8,9 Hematologic data on 32 ...

As a first‑generation college student, Gomez attended Irvine Valley College, where she excelled in math and physics, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation in patients with mechanical valve prostheses conferred similar risk ...