Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

The aortic valve sits between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta. It opens and closes with the heartbeat to allow blood to flow to the body without leaking back into the heart. It may need to be ...

A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart’s main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a ...

The mitral valve, which connects the upper and lower left-side chambers of the human heart, is one of the many pieces of the heart critical to its proper function. Mitral valve prolapse is common, and ...

A leaky heart valve occurs when a heart valve doesn’t close properly, allowing blood to flow backward. During pregnancy, this condition can affect circulation and increase strain on your heart. A ...

TO GET IT DONE....AND HE'S GONE FROM FIGHTING FOR EVERY BREATH...TO ALREADY FEELING BETTER. "WELCOME, YOU LOOK GOOD. HAVE A SEAT. HOW DO YOU FEEL. DOING GREAT. YOU DID WONDERS WITH ME. OKAY!" THIS IS ...

ATLANTA — WSB consumer adviser Clark Howard has been telling us how to save money for more than three decades. Now he has some advice for our health. On Wednesday, Howard will have surgery for a heart ...