The heart consists of 4 chambers--2 atria (upper chambers) and 2 ventricles (lower chambers). Blood passes through a valve as it leaves each chamber of the heart. The valves prevent the backward flow ...

A grandmother has been given a “second chance at life” after undergoing a world-first heart valve operation. Julia Butterworth, 53, had two valves in her heart replaced in 2007 after doctors ...

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 ...

In the centenary year of the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS), this review article outlines the influence of UK cardiologists and surgeons on the field of heart valve disease, many of whom can ...

Doctors at Duke performed the first-ever mitral heart valve replacement surgery. A severely damaged mitral valve can cause heart failure and other problems. Mechanical and non-living valve replacement ...

Heart valve disease happens when one or more of the four valves in your heart don’t function properly. Normally, heart valves separate the chambers of the heart and keep blood flowing in the right ...

No one was more surprised than Dr. Rick Dearman when he was diagnosed with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, also known as heart valve failure. As a heart surgeon, he’d treated hundreds of ...

More than a quarter of “healthy” adults over 60 have undiagnosed heart valve disease, a new study from the University of East Anglia in England finds. “Heart valve disease is when one or ...

Although bioprosthetic heart valves provide patients with a significantly better quality of life and fewer debilitating complications than mechanical valves, their rapid degeneration in young ...