Those with a failing or infected valve may undergo open heart surgery to replace the defective ... valve from a cadaver or an animal like a pig or cow. Following his first operation, for almost ...

Replacement procedures include: Open-heart surgery to remove a damaged valve and replace it with either a mechanical valve or a valve made of cow, pig, or human heart tissue Transcatheter aortic ...

Miriam Margolyes has said she ‘doesn’t have long to live and will probably die in the next five years’. The 84-year-old ...

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

Another common condition that can be treated without open heart surgery is aortic valve stenosis. Aortic stenosis occurs when the valve between the heart’s lower left chamber and the aorta is ...

Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves (MHV)—and the one designed in their own lab appears to outperform the others.

Boston Scientific is pulling its latest transcatheter aortic heart valve platform from the worldwide market and said it will ...

(7News) — An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced ... said the surgery was done to help ...

Baptist Hospital now offers the latest innovation in treating tricuspid regurgitation or TR — it’s called TriClip. TR is a ...

Open-heart surgery is a general term that refers to ... after surgeries like coronary artery bypass and a heart valve repair or replacement. Medicare Advantage (Part C) is an alternative to ...

A Maryland preteenager became the first patient in the world to receive a live heart valve in replacement of an artificial one during a partial heart transplant in a Washington, D.C., hospital. The 11 ...

The superior accuracy of the new test means doctors can better predict when patients will require surgery ... yet dangerous heart condition. "It happens when the aortic valve, the main outflow ...