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 ...

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 ...

One-size-fits-all hats are okay, but one-size-fits-all medical treatments don't cut it. A new study shows that drug treatment ...

In keeping with their commitment to advance cardiac care, the multidisciplinary team at the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...