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USF Health Heart Institute Doctors Are Upbeat about Cardiac Regeneration

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That’s the subject of a new study by a team that includes two USF Health doctors who reported their findings in Circulation , the flagship journal of the American Heart Association. “An The key element of this study is the link to cardiac regeneration,’’ said John Mably, PhD , another author of the study. “If

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Using Stem Cell-derived Heart Muscle Cells to Advance Heart Regenerative Therapy

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Myocardial infarctions , commonly known as “heart attacks,” are on the rise, resulting in a significant number of deaths each year. Heart attacks typically kill millions of cardiac muscle cells, leaving the heart in a weakened state.

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Severe Lung Infection During COVID-19 Can Cause Damage to the Heart

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But researchers said the findings could have relevance to organs beyond the heart and also to viruses other than SARS-CoV-2. What scientists did not know is whether the damage occurs because the virus infects the heart tissue itself, or because of systemic inflammation triggered by the body’s well-known immune response to the virus.

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Clipping Spline Technique Progresses Reproductive Health and Cardiac Development Research

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An improved understanding of heart development could help inform new clinical strategies in managing congenital heart diseases, which are the most common type of birth defects, said research team leader Shang Wang from Stevens Institute of Technology.

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The Risks and Benefits of 'Too Much' Exercise

Physiologically Speaking

Many, but not all, are cardiac-related issues (i.e., heart attack, arrhythmia, underlying congenital heart abnormality). We know exercise, and especially a marathon, stresses the heart. Why does exercise increase the risk of a cardiac event? and elsewhere, up until 2016.