Heart valve replacement involves removing the diseased heart valve. Newer techniques go through the groin. Learn how open ...

Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi treated its first patient using new transcatheter aortic valve replacement ...

Mumbai: A 60-year-old woman who faced a 30% risk of mortality underwent a successful tricuspid valve replacement surgery with ...

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

Tetralogy of Fallot is a congenital heart defect some babies are born with. It’s a combination of four different heart ...

Pi-Cardia designed the Shortcut device to mitigate the risk of coronary artery obstruction by splitting aortic valve leaflets ...

The harmony valve is inserted through a caterer in the groin and snaked up through the body to the heart. “The harmony valve is, I would say it’s kind of shaped like a dumbbell. It’s wider on either ...

But a bad heart valve almost got the best of her. “I needed a new micro valve to put in and they told me they tried to put it in and they said I didn’t have an open, my arteries were closed up. They ...

Heart valve disease is much more common in aging adults that has been thought, a new study warns. More than a quarter of healthy and symptom-free people aged 60 and older had previously undetected ...

Dr. Hadi Mohammadi, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, University of British Columbia Okanagan campus "We have produced a new mechanical heart valve that combines the best of both ...

Recurrent pericarditis ended the career of Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Henrik Lundqvist. Now, he's part of a campaign ...