The device has evolved from one aimed at just functional MR to a broader HF therapy. EMPOWER will provide more insights.

Spinal discs act as shock absorbers between vertebrae. They consist of a tough outer layer (the annulus fibrosis) covering a soft, jelly-like core (the nucleus pulposus). When a disc is damaged, it ...

24 and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine. The trial, conducted at 83 international sites across North America, Europe and the Middle East, randomly assigned 716 patients ...

2005). While DGD can have two liquid column gradients in the wellbore annulus (Xu et al., 2005; Scanlon and Medeiros, 2012), the bottom hole pressure is equal to the sum of the fluid column pressure ...

Liquid crystals are substances that flow like a liquid but maintain some of the ordered structure of crystals. Liquid-crystal molecules tend to be elongated and to orient in specific directions ...

However, IVD is susceptible to damage and even failure due to injury, pathology, and aging. Annulus fibrosus (AF), the structural and functional integrity of which is critically essential to confine ...