There are often no noticeable symptoms, but some patients may only have a heart murmur, a "swishing noise" doctors can hear ...

At two years of follow-up, patients with a poorly functioning tricuspid valve in the heart who received the best available ...

Valvular dysfunction and age go hand in hand,” Dr. Raza explained. “In the general population, 2% of patients have valvular ...

Mechanical heart valves have improved long-term survival benefit over biological valves for patients aged 50-70 years, new ...

Across the study, two patients experienced “serious adverse events of atrial fibrillation (AF) requiring cardioversion,” ...

For conditions such as truncus arteriosus and severe aortic stenosis without good function, infants not only need new heart valves and arteries to survive, but the new tissue also needs to grow ...

Ben McCullough, 76, received an EVOQUE heart valve last fall. On Wednesday, he got to thank the makers face-to-face.

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a valve designed to treat aortic regurgitation had ...

Aortic stenosis is a condition where the aortic valve narrows, obstructing blood flow from the heart to the aorta. As a ...

The chordae tendineae (CT), often referred to as the “heart strings,” are thin, tendinous structures that connect the heart ...

Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement without the need for open-heart surgery. For years, Mertz, a great-grandmother from Essex ...