Kolkata: A 33-year-old woman, who had previously received a Glen Shunt procedure in childhood due to a congenital heart ...

The first surgery includes implantation of a plastic tube called a shunt to improve blood flow. However, as children grow, the shunt is often replaced to accommodate their changing bodies.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Alleviant Medical an investigational device exemption (IDE), enabling ...

Microbot Medical, Inc. is a pre-clinical medical device ... It makes use of the Self-Cleaning Shunt, a robotic system designed as the ventricular catheter portion of a Cerebrospinal Fluid shunt ...

Madison Scientific (MadSci) is an early-stage medical device company innovating smart electro-mechanical devices to improve treatment and long-term care for patients with hydrocephalus and other ...

Inter-atrial shunt device therapy has shown mixed results in clinical trials, with clinical 'non-responders' typically showing features of more advanced heart failure. We aimed to analyse the ...

“A reality in glaucoma is that tube shunts do fail,” Sylvia Groth, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center ... The plates of the tube shunt can be placed in all four quadrants of the ...