UBCO’s Dr. Hadi Mohammadi holds his latest innovation—a manufactured heart valve that combines the best of both tissue and mechanical technologies—that may eventually out-perform current valves.

For most of history, the human heart has been regarded as a forbidden organ too delicate to tamper with. It might have remained so, were it not for World War II. Military doctors, facing injury ...

A heart surgeon who performed a revolutionary aortic valve replacement therapy on patients with heart valve failure undergoes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can mechanical heart valves perform similarly to tissue valves? An in vitro study . Journal of Biomechanics , 2024; 174: 112270 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2024.112270 ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a type of heart valve disease in which the flaps of the mitral valve do not shut properly, ...

Mitral valve prolapse occurs when the valve between your heart’s left upper chamber and left lower chamber doesn’t close properly. Many people with mitral valve prolapse experience no symptoms ...

Learn what it means here. You may not know what a heart valve is -- until it stops working right. It's a common form of heart disease. Does your heart respond well to exertion? That's what a ...

Heart valves open and close to allow blood to flow through the heart. When these valves become damaged, your heart has to work harder and may not work as well. There are a few different ways your ...

Cardia’s ShortCut device, designed to open up previously implanted heart valves and clear a path for blood to flow into the ...