Your heart has four valves that open and close with each heartbeat to control the flow of blood. Heart valve diseases are conditions that affect one or more heart valves. Each heart valve condition ...

A study finds severe valvular heart disease in 7.2% of patients with cancer undergoing echocardiography, with valvular ...

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NOTE: A link to videos of the developing heart is at end of the release. The human heart confounds logic by starting to beat before it is fully formed —a developmental oddity shared by all vertebrate ...

New ACC/AHA guidelines update management of adults with congenital heart defects but highlight the shortage of specialists ...

Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year of follow ...

Transcatheter heart valve repair and replacement have reshaped how structural heart disease is treated, and the market is ...

R O C H E S T E R, N.Y., March 13 -- James Dauteuil probably never expected he would be wearing a piece of “leather” inside his heart. But Dauteuil, 76, is now one of three people in the Rochester ...

Edwards Lifesciences announced the approval Monday for management of both pediatric and adult patients with severe pulmonary regurgitation on echocardiography who are candidates for surgical ...

Edwards Lifesciences announced it received FDA approval for its transcatheter valve with adaptive prestent for patients with severe pulmonary regurgitation. According to a company press release, the ...