Find out what you need to know about your aortic valve — where it's located, what it does, and how it works. Learn about the symptoms, causes, and treatments for aortic valve conditions.

Some of the blood in your heart isn’t flowing the right way if you have mitral valve regurgitation. Learn the signs and what you can do about it.

Every year, approximately 13,000 heart valve replacements are performed in England and 300,000 worldwide - and the numbers are growing each year.

Valvular heart disease is a form of heart disease that occurs when one or more of the heart’s four valves don’t function properly. Valve replacement surgery may be an option if the valves of ...

A U.S. appeals court on Friday overturned a jury's verdict that medical device maker Medtronic owes competitor Colibri $106.5 ...

A beating biorobotic heart aims to better simulate valves Date: January 10, 2024 Source: Cell Press Summary: Combining a biological heart and a silicone robotic pump, researchers created a ...

SYDNEY, Jan. 12 (UPI) --Middle-aged patients who have aortic valve replacement, or AVR, may do better after surgery with tissue-based valves rather than metal ones, according to a new study. ...

More than 1 year after the world’s first partial heart transplant in a newborn boy, pediatric transplant cardiologists at Duke Health report that the donor valve tissue is growing with the child ...

Heart valves made in minutes control blood flow immediately after being implanted into sheep. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 06 / 230607123521.htm ...

Doctors at Children's National Hospital performed Preston's surgery. An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor ...

Cardiologists had assumed that if they fixed problems on the left side of the heart — like a leaky mitral or aortic valve — the tricuspid valve would fix itself. Their assumption was wrong.