Replacement heart valves that grow inside the body are a step closer to reality following studies led by researchers at Imperial. The results are published in Communications Biology. Surgery to ...

Biology is like magic ... and fatty tissue - were found in the correct locations, mimicking a natural heart valve. Unlike ...

Aortic valve narrowing (aortic stenosis) with concomitant cardiac amyloidosis is a severe heart disease of old age that is ...

Doctors at Children's National Hospital performed Preston's surgery. An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor ...

The FDA gave the OK for the North Chicago-based medical device maker's Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement.

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2005;2(2):60-61. Several strategies for heart valve tissue engineering are evolving. They include the use of decellularized allogenic or xenogenic valve matrices ...

Heart valve disease has no effective long-term treatment, and people who suffer from it have to endure repeated, invasive surgeries throughout their lives to survive. Researchers at Georgia Tech ...

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. “Heart valve disease is when one or ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to those with a biological valve, new research led by the University of Bristol ...

You might need this operation if you have a problem with your heart’s aortic valve. If certain things go wrong with that valve, your doctor may recommend that you have surgery to replace it.

By Benjamin Mueller For decades, people with failing heart valves who nevertheless felt all right would walk out of the cardiologist’s office with the same “wait and see” treatment plan ...