MemorialCare offers advanced, minimally invasive heart treatments like TAVR & MitraClip as alternatives to open-heart surgery ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive procedure used to replace damaged heart valves, ...

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve opening, which restricts blood flow from the heart to the rest of the body ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) today announced the launch of its latest surgical risk calculator designed for patients undergoing ascending aorta and aortic root surgery, with or without ...

Edwards Lifesciences has claimed a groundbreaking approval from the FDA that opens up its minimally invasive heart valve implants to patients before they begin to show cardiac symptoms.

Healthy valves open wide to let blood move freely through the heart and body. They then shut tightly until the next heartbeat. If you have aortic regurgitation, the flaps around your aortic ...

Blood enters the left ventricle through the mitral valve and leaves through the aortic valve. A stenotic valve is a valve opening that has gotten smaller and is partially obstructing blood flow. In ...

Heart valves that slowly fail like a door with “rusty hinges” are not being detected early enough even though they can be treated with a simple replacement valve and no open heart surgery, a cardiac ...

A pioneering heart centre at Basildon Hospital is celebrating a major milestone after carrying out its 1,000th "life-changing ...

Calcium in the aortic valve by itself may not cause problems, but it can keep the valve from being able to open all the way, a condition called aortic stenosis. It isn’t always easy to hear the ...

A couple from Minot recently went through something few partners ever do — both needed serious heart procedures just months ...