There was a time not long ago when Barletta Hansen's days of good health looked numbered because of something she shared with her mother: a leaky heart valve. "Our cardiologist said it's very unusual ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have successfully performed preclinical laboratory testing of a replacement heart valve intended for toddlers and young children with congenital ...

Affecting an estimated one in eight people older than 75, aortic valve stenosis - a narrowing of the heart's main artery - makes the heart work harder to supply the body with blood, potentially ...

Members of MidMichigan's comprehensive Structural Heart Program began performing a new minimally invasive heart valve procedure known as transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in July 2016.

Edwards Lifesciences ($EW) reports initial success with the first three human implants of its Fortis mitral transcatheter heart valve. Good news is crucial here if ...

LOS ANGELES (EMBARGOED UNTIL JUNE 11, 2019 at 11 A.M. EDT) -- A new analysis conducted by investigators at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute shows for the first time that patients with a common ...

Replacing a faulty heart valve can restore healthy circulation, but the procedure carries some risks. These include blood clots, infection, and other complications. Generally, the outlook is usually ...

Your mitral valve is one of the four major valves in your heart. It helps blood flow through your heart and out to the rest of your body. When this valve isn’t working correctly, it puts stress on ...

TMVR is a minimally invasive but technically challenging procedure to replace a mitral valve without the need for conventional open-heart surgery, indicated to treat selected cases of narrowed mitral ...

Bicuspid aortic valve surgery involves repairing or replacing a bicuspid valve. The procedure corrects a congenital condition in which a person has two cusps instead of three. A bicuspid aortic valve ...