Among the most dangerous issues facing patients in need of replacement mechanical heart valves is aortic regurgitation —  a ...

One of the most widespread and critical heart diseases is heart valve disease, and when the valves cease functioning, the heart will not be able to pump blood anymore. During the past several decades, ...

This comes after a dip in the number of hearts donated to heart valve banks, with 600 hearts donated in 2021 and just 368 ...

In the wake of a major patent decision, Medtronic will be forced to remove its CoreValve transcatheter heart valve from the German market. Edwards Lifesciences said today that a German Court had found ...

Learn about new materials and manufacturing processes for brain computer interfaces, heart valves and orthopedic implants.

Michael Carlo's new heart valve worked well at first following his 2017 surgery. Simple tasks like climbing a set of stairs no longer left the then-14-year-old North East boy out of breath. Within ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a common heart valve condition in which the mitral valve cannot close properly. Cardiologists may implant mitral valve clips to help the valve close effectively. Mitral ...

Interventional cardiologists at the Seattle-based UW Medicine Heart Institute performed the first minimally invasive heart tumor removal using a catheter-delivered device July 27. The procedure only ...

Robert Shanahan needed surgery only twice in his life coming into this year, once to remove his tonsils when he was young, the other more recently when he needed a stent to open one of his blood ...

There are three types of bicuspid aortic valves — types 0, 1, and 2. Experts classify these types based on whether the leaflets of the valve have fused to form a ridge. A bicuspid aortic valve is a ...

A troubling rise in severe diverticulitis cases among Americans under 50 highlights a significant public health concern.

The Central Chest Institute of Thailand (CCIT) in Nonthaburi has adopted the Tavi procedure to treat aortic valve stenosis, a ...