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Cardiovascular science provided the blueprint for university Covid-19 research

The German Center for Cardiovascular Research has carried out pioneering clinical Covid-19 research by making its clinical research platform available…

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Innovative X-ray imaging shows Covid-19 can cause vascular damage to the heart

An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen and Hannover Medical School (MHH) has detected significant changes in the heart…

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40 percent of those who have recovered from COVID-19 suffer from long covid symptoms

Not much is known about Long Covid. A new study by the Mainz University Medical Center shows that around 40 per cent struggle with health problems for…

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New DZHK study to reduce scarring in narrowed heart valves

Despite successful treatment of narrowed aortic valves by catheter-assisted aortic valve implantation (TAVI), patients with severely scarred hearts…

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Use of certain antibodies in patients with cardiogenic shock shows no benefit in clinical trial

The treatment of patients with the antibody Adrecizumab after cardiogenic shock has no clinical benefit. Promising results from previous studies could…

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Gene scissors are supposed to destroy SARS-CoV-2 and other RNA viruses

Why not just cut up the virus and render it harmless in this way? That is the idea for a new type of antiviral therapy. The first results in the Petri…

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How drugs affect the gut microbiome

If the “ecosystem” of the intestinal bacteria, the so-called microbiome, is changed by drugs, this can have good and bad consequences. Researchers…

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A well-fitting FFP2 mask provides almost 100 percent protection against a COVID-19 infection

Even at a distance of three meters, it takes less than five minutes for an unvaccinated person standing in the breath of a Covid-19-infected person to…

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Simultaneous mitral and tricuspid valve surgery has advantages (CTSN-TVR-DZHK14 study)

Should the tricuspid valve be treated at the same time as the mitral valve reconstruction? In cases of mild tricuspid valve insufficiency, cardiac…

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How to fill a heart

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction was previously considered largely untreatable. An MDC team led by Professor Michael Gotthardt has now…

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