Protecting your heart starts with understanding how it works. Heart valve diseases are conditions that can disrupt the flow ...

A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s.

As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

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 ...

One cause to a malfunctioning heart may have to do with a bad valve, specifically the mitral valve. If the flaps of the valve ...

Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns ...

Capstan Medical, a startup focused on robotic-assisted mitral and tricuspid valve replacement, recently completed its first ...

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 ...

The new device created by researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory hopes to change the treatment of heart valve disease forever.

More than 11 million Americans are living with heart-valve disease at this very moment, leading to 25,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. But an estimated three in four people have little to no ...

Originally appeared on the NOVA Web site Cut to the Heart. Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and ...

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Bipeenchandra Bhamre, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai, explained, “Heart valves are the ...