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Clinicians will increasingly encounter heart rhythm data generated from consumer-grade devices. Consumer-grade smartphone-paired devices and smartwatches have very high sensitivity and specificity for ...

This means that your child is born with it. AV canal defect is a large hole in the center of the heart. It is caused by a combination of problems with the heart's structure. Atrial septal defect. This ...

What is alcohol septal ablation? Alcohol septal ablation is a non-surgical procedure to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This is an inherited condition in which your heart muscle is abnormally thick ...

Under the influence of geostress, seepage, weathering and artificial disturbance, rock materials inevitably develop defects (fissures, cracks, pores, voids, faults, etc.), which greatly reduce the ...

For the left-sided foci, an atrial septal puncture into the left atrium was performed through the patent foramen ovale or under radiographic guidance ... except in those with congenital heart defects ...

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The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the use of generative artificial intelligence for any purpose last year, citing security concerns with the technology as well as the propensity of some ...

Three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) adds important information to two-dimensional echocardiography in identifying anatomical abnormalities in the atrioventricular valve (AVV) that contribute to ...