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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

But her heart valves helped 2 other girls and allowed doctors to perform the 1st living mitral valve replacement. Trend Report: A 'tightening' jawline serum, arch-supporting flip-flops, more IE 11 ...

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 ...

Abbott Laboratories has received approval for a mitral valve replacement that can be implanted without open-heart surgery. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration gave the OK for the North Chicago ...

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 ...

Bioengineered Valves “New bioengineering techniques now allow doctors to create heart valves using a patient’s own cells. This reduces the risk of the body rejecting them.

Mary Ann Kozlowski is the longest survivor of an artificial double heart valve replacement, at 49 years and 92 days. She had her surgery in December 1974.