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Medical Devices / Instrumentation

Aortic Wrap

Every year over 300,000 individuals in the developed world die of heart failure. The fundamental basis for heart failure in the elderly is systolic hypertension due to aortic stiffening.


Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have developed a simple, passive surgical device that has the potential to reduce by almost half the death toll for heart failure in the elderly.

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