The goal of heart valve surgery is to repair or replace a malfunctioning heart valve to prevent the development of life-threatening conditions. Valves are one-way gates in the heart that keep blood ...

A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s.

A STUDY assessing coronary proximity in patients undergoing transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR) with ...

The implantation of the new valve is done without the need to open the heart completely, thereby drastically reducing the ...

The new device created by researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory hopes to change the treatment of heart valve disease forever.

In a groundbreaking event for Arizona healthcare, HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center recently became the first ...

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 replacement ...

where Edwards Lifesciences and Medtronic are the leaders in a market that has shifted to transcatheter replacement from open heart surgery over the past two decades. The mitral and tricuspid valve ...

So far, the oldest "mainstay operative treatment therapy" to treat mitral regurgitation was open heart surgery in which ...

As people age, a buildup of calcium on the aortic valve can make it thicker and stiffer leading to aortic stenosis.