Heart valve disease is a fairly common problem that happens when at least one of your four heart valves isn’t working ...

Recently, a 41-year-old man from Andheri, who suffered from severe stenosis or narrowing of heart valves, got a new lease of ...

No one was more surprised than Dr. Rick Dearman when he was diagnosed with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, also known as heart valve failure. As a heart surgeon, he’d treated hundreds of ...

Heart valve disease is much more common in aging adults that has been thought, a new study warns. More than a quarter of ...

The II Innovation Cardiology International Congress brought together cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, endovascular surgeons, doctors ...

As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

OPB has premiered a new documentary that traces the development of the world’s first successful artificial mitral heart valve by a young, Oregon-based cardiac surgeon and a retired engineer.

Cardiac researchers at Intermountain Health have received a $2.4 million, four-year federal grant from the National ...

The M6 is an accelerated durability tester designed for heart valves, with modular test sections which can be modified for a variety of medical devices and materials. After more than 20 years ...

2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...

However, when both valves were fixed, 14% of patients in the trial required a pacemaker, which regulates the heart's rhythm. Similar results were reported by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons in 2017.

The goal of heart valve surgery is to repair or replace a malfunctioning heart valve to prevent the development of life-threatening conditions. Valves are one-way gates in the heart that keep blood ...