A leaky heart valve means blood isn’t moving correctly through one of the heart’s four valves. This can cause complications like heart rhythm disturbances and heart failure. But treatment is usually ...

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 ...

Combining a biological heart and a silicone robotic pump, researchers created a biorobotic heart that beats like a real one, with a focus on a valve on the left side of the heart. The heart valve ...

Tissue engineering of heart valves represents a transformative approach to addressing the limitations of conventional prostheses, which are often associated with thrombosis, calcification, and lack of ...

While a person may need medication or surgery to manage heart valve disease, incorporating exercise into a treatment plan can offer additional benefits. It can increase heart function and fitness.

There are three types of bicuspid aortic valves — types 0, 1, and 2. Experts classify these types based on whether the leaflets of the valve have fused to form a ridge. A bicuspid aortic valve is a ...

Researchers have developed a method for cheaply producing heart valves in the span of minutes that are functional immediately after being implanted into sheep. The scientists call their method ...

Background Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has already been recommended for some high-risk patients with aortic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tissue of the first-ever partial heart transplant demonstrated durable function out to 1 year. In another first, ...

When pediatric cardiac surgeons evaluate options for their smallest patients with the most severe cardiac birth defects, they don’t have a lot of good choices. For conditions such as truncus ...