The four valves of the heart prevent blood from flowing in the wrong direction, and open or close each time the heart beats. Learn more about them, here.

surgical AV replacement, which replaces the valve with a mechanical one, or one from an animal or deceased donor through open-heart surgery; valve repair (valvuloplasty), which repairs the ...

S1: The first heart sound, “lub” or S1, is due to vibrations from the closure of the mitral and tricuspid valves, or atrioventricular valves. It occurs after the atria pump blood into the ...

NEW YORK, NY—High-grade atrioventricular (AV) block occurs within 1 month for roughly one in seven patients who undergo transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement ... Epstein said the transcatheter ...

To understand what an AV block means, let’s pump in some facts about how your heart works. You may have heard the term “muscle head.” But, it’s your heart that is mostly muscle.

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Objective This study aims to evaluate the role of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) in patients with SLE with heart valve ...

Every year, approximately 13,000 heart valve replacements are performed in England and 300,000 worldwide - and the numbers ...

One hope for partial heart transplant is that it is an opportunity to use donor organs that would otherwise be wasted. Owen's donated valves came from a 2-day-old girl whose delivery had been ...

Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defects. WebMD explains the conditions that can affect the heart’s chambers, valves, and blood vessels.

Cardiologists were wary of replacing valves partly because, until recent decades, that would have required open-heart surgery, a risk that hardly seemed worth taking for patients who were able to ...