What Happens During Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery? Minimally invasive heart valve surgery is a type of surgery performed through smaller incisions. This type of surgery reduces blood loss ...

Cardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland, Wash., company with a technology to treat heart valve malfunction, has raised $53 million ...

The quality of valve surgery itself was still relatively crude for both closed- and open-heart techniques. But we made a deal. We would start the project by developing one valve at a time ...

Kirkland-based heart care company Cardiac Dimensions on Thursday raised a $53 million Series E round.

The goal of heart valve surgery is to repair or replace a malfunctioning heart valve to prevent the development of life-threatening conditions. Valves are one-way gates in the heart that keep blood ...

Rising prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and rapid advancements in minimally invasive procedures are fueling the growth ...

Loma Linda University Children's Hospital recently made history performing the first pediatric partial heart transplant in ...

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.

Patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis undergoing CoreValve or Evolut TAVI have better 5-year bioprosthetic valve ...

“Additionally, patient representatives favored the Heart Valve Disease Impact on Daily Life questionnaire ... use the parameters that they have defined and how the patient-centric components fit into ...

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 ...