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Donor heart preservation for heart transplantation
Heart transplantation has enjoyed a spectacular success over the past 25 years. Prior to 1980 less than 350 operations were carried out with an overall one year survival of less than 60%. In 1995 more than 3,000 transplants were performed with a one year survival of 83%. However, growth and …
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Black Heart
<p>Identity is something that I believe we all struggle with at some point in our lives. Whether it is trying to find one's identity via place, culture, or response to power structure, the struggle to identify one's self seems to take precedence over anything else. Thus, identity is the main …
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Shark Heart
Shark Heart is a manuscript of poems that maneuver between fearlessness and tenderness at the drop of a dime. In the same way that many sharks need to survive by constantly swimming in order to extract oxygen from the water streaming between their gills, the heart muscle needs to constantly pump …
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Heart rate variability in mice with coronary heart disease
Heart rate variability (HRV), the beat-to-beat fluctuation of the heart rate, is a non-invasive test that measures the autonomic regulation of the heart. Assessment of HRV has been shown to predict the risk of mortality in patients after an acute myocardial infarction. Recently, the Krieger lab at …
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Opening the Heart
It is my discovery of the mandala that has had the most significant influence on me as an artist. The mandala, Sanskrit word for circle or center, is found in a majority of my pieces, either literally or symbolically. My interest in and subsequent use of the mandala began twenty years ago and …
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A Guayaba's Heart
A Guayaba's Heart is a poetry collection that is utilizes memory as a binding for the themes of language, family, and Central American landscapes, The poetry collection takes a close look at these themes through a generational lens and gives space to the unveiling of family secrets, the imaginary …
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The Heart Radical
A young American woman goes to China looking for quiet and respite from campus activism but finds herself drawn into a love triangle with two Chinese dissidents. Through these relationships she becomes involved in the explosive demonstrations at Tiananmen Square and her life will never be the same.
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The Heart Radical
A young American woman goes to China looking for quiet and respite from campus activism but finds herself drawn into a love triangle with two Chinese dissidents. Through these relationships she becomes involved in the explosive demonstrations at Tiananmen Square and her life will never be the same.
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Heart of culture
… then cultural and civil space acts as the heart. Cultural space allows for the societal corpus to gaze into itself. Cultural space however is commonly made to act as gilded cages -held aloft within ivory towers- with a negation of its civic value. A cultural heart, an institutional anchor, …
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Heart of darkness
A few decades ago, black holes were a theoretical quirk. Highly probable on paper, they were doubted more than touted; many scientists didn't believe they even existed. Today, however, black holes appear to be everywhere, from behemoths in the cores of almost every galaxy to more modest, …
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An artificial heart
Thesis (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Biology, 1948.
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Tritiated Saxitoxin Binding to Whole Frog Heart and Frog Heart Homogenates
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T05:40:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7915447.pdf: 5297036 bytes, checksum: 11db52c4a4fd8549a25f458ce8122b34 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Targeting heart rate as a novel therapeutic approach in acute heart failure
… Standard pharmacological treatment for heart failure improves cardiac remodelling and survival in the setting of chronic heart failure, but is suboptimal in cases of acute heart failure (AHF). Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), de-novo hypotension (often due to haemorrhagic shock), and …
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