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 ...

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

Biology is like magic ... and fatty tissue - were found in the correct locations, mimicking a natural heart valve. Unlike previous attempts, this project, led by Heart Biotech at Harefield ...

Partial heart transplants provide a range of lifesaving options for children with complex congenital heart conditions, and can lead to a domino effect of life-saving procedures.

The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, ...

The results are published in the journal Communications Biology. Heart valve replacement is a life-saving treatment, but it is rarely a long-term solution. Both mechanical and biological valves ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new type of artificial heart valve transplanted into lambs maintained function and grew with the animals for up to a year, scientists reported March 17 in Science Translational Medicine. “For ...

MONTH AND TOMORROW IS HEART VALVE DISEASE AWARENESS DAY. SO RIGHT NOW I’M JOINED BY DOCTOR ARUN KUMAR REDDY WHO IS A CARDIOLOGIST AT UPMC. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. REALLY APPRECIATE ...

Atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR) is a common type of MR linked to high rates of heart failure, highlighting the ...