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 ...

Biology is like magic ... and fatty tissue - were found in the correct locations, mimicking a natural heart valve. Unlike previous attempts, this project, led by Heart Biotech at Harefield ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today that it received FDA approval for its Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system.

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 ...

Your heart has four chambers, each with a valve that allows blood to exit. Healthy valves open wide to let blood move freely through the heart and body. They then shut tightly until the next ...

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 ...