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Recovering from a corona infection at home - that's what most people want to do. But sometimes hospitalization is unavoidable. But when is the right time for this? This is being investigated by the COVID SMART study at LMU Klinikum München. Anyone who has risk factors for a...

A research group from the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) is growing artificial heart tissue to heal heart failure. The researchers can now use cells with sophisticated properties for this purpose. This is...

A small, wearable heart monitor can detect atrial fibrillation in high-risk patients ten times more frequently than standard tests. This is the result of a new trans-Atlantic study involving researchers from Canada and Germany.

Cardiac arrhythmias were the most common cardiovascular problem in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. This is shown in an evaluation by scientists of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology at Heidelberg...

For the first time, engineered heart muscle (EHM) from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) will be used to treat patients with heart failure. After regulatory approval, recruitment of the first patient for the first-in-class, first-in-patient BioVAT-HF-DZHK20 early...

Diastolic heart failure can be reliably detected with a newly developed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology, shows a study by the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the Göttingen site. Until now, this was only possible with a heart catheterisation study,...

Circulatory disorders in the heart can have two causes: The large blood vessels can be narrowed, which can be treated with a stent, for example, or the small, finely branched vessels are no longer permeable. The latter is called impaired coronary microcirculation. A study by the...

After an infection, the risk of a heart attack in cardiovascular risk patients increases up to twenty times. Scientists from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) have found that the immune cells are involved in this in a mouse model. However, specific molecules...

To protect against sudden cardiac death, all patients with severe cardiac insufficiency, in which the heart's pumping capacity is highly restricted, are currently implanted with a defibrillator. But the procedure is risky and often unnecessary. Every year, the device triggers a...

The German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) is making its research platform available for coronavirus research, with clinical data, diagnostic images and patient samples that can be collected uniformly throughout Germany. In doing so, it is supporting the National...