Find out what you need to know about your aortic valve — where it's located, what it does, and how it works. Learn about the symptoms, causes, and treatments for aortic valve conditions.

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

More than a quarter of "healthy" adults over 60 have undiagnosed heart valve disease, a new study from the University of East Anglia in England finds. Take this news to heart.

Aortic valve insufficiency, also called aortic insufficiency or aortic regurgitation, is a valvular heart disease. This condition develops when the aortic valve is damaged.

As the area for the insertion of the new valve was very small, only a 21-size valve would have been suitable. However, as no 21-size mitral valves were available in the market, the team had innovated ...

The heart valve simulator can mimic the structure, function, and motion of a healthy or diseased heart, allowing surgeons and researchers to demonstrate various interventions while collecting real ...

More than 1 year after the world’s first partial heart transplant in a newborn boy, pediatric transplant cardiologists at Duke Health report that the donor valve tissue is growing with the child ...

A CT scan of a 64-year-old patient with heart failure showing calcification of the aortic valve, bright white, in center, which can lead to aortic valve stenosis.

A startup that is revolutionizing treatment of a common but potentially fatal heart condition has announced a $28.5 million funding boost. Innoventric, based in Ness Ziona, central Israel, has ...

Cardiologists had assumed that if they fixed problems on the left side of the heart — like a leaky mitral or aortic valve — the tricuspid valve would fix itself. Their assumption was wrong.

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve ...