The transcatheter mitral valve implant market is forecast to be worth more than $250m by 2034, owing to an increasing prevalence of heart disease. The broader mitral valve replacement market is ...

The heart has four valves, one each at the downstream end of each chamber, so that, under normal conditions, ... The arteries that fuel the heart’s muscle encircle the heart like a crown.

IRVINE, Calif., April 14, 2025--Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW) today announced the company’s SAPIEN M3 mitral valve replacement system received CE Mark for the transcatheter ...

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. Take this news to heart.

Treating valve disease has come a long way since its rudimentary beginnings, especially after the introduction in the 1950s of the heart-lung machine, which enables surgeons to stop the heart ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have successfully performed preclinical laboratory testing of a replacement heart valve intended for toddlers and young children with congenital ...

Cardiologists were wary of replacing valves partly because, until recent decades, that would have required open-heart surgery, a risk that hardly seemed worth taking for patients who were able to ...

The groundbreaking Masters HP 15-mm mechanical heart valve saved her. Sadie Rutenberg was born with a gaping hole between the two sides of her heart. Accessibility statement Skip to main content ...

The world’s first successful heart valve replacement surgery was performed in 1960 at what’s now Oregon Health & Science University. Behind this life-saving innovation was an unlikely ...

Journi Kelly, 11, needed a new heart. But her heart valves helped 2 other girls and allowed doctors to perform the 1st living mitral valve replacement.