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.

Abbott announced the FDA approved its transcatheter mitral valve replacement system for patients with severe mitral annular ...

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 ...

Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his ...

"If there's such a thing as a rock star in (transplant) surgery, he's a rock star," said Gordon A. Ewy, director of the UA's Sarver Heart Center, where Copeland is a co-director. "He literally put ...

May 22, 2025 — When the workload on the heart increases, the ventricular wall may thicken too, known as cardiac hypertrophy. This is an adaptive response that reduces pressure on the heart and ...