With each heartbeat, blood courses through your body. Some traverse arteries from the lungs back to the heart, and some navigate through capillaries in the thinnest layers of your eyelid, almost ...

Pregnancy makes you realise the wonders of your body’s functioning to support the growing baby in the womb. One such aspect is the blood flow through the umbilical cord, which is a soft tube that ...

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve that affects how blood flows through the heart and body. While not often linked to heart valve narrowing, high and irregular blood pressure can ...

Heart valves allow blood to flow one way and prevent it from flowing in the wrong direction. The tricuspid valve controls blood flow between the right atrium and right ventricle. The bicuspid or ...

Filip Hammaréus, PhD student, and Petter Dyverfeldt, professor, at Linköping University. The research was performed at the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization in Linköping, Sweden.