According to the American Heart Association, valvular heart disease affects about 2.5% of adults in the United States, and more than 100,000 patients undergo valve replacement surgery each year.

Partial heart transplants for congenital heart disease using donor semilunar valves showed valve growth matching patient development in infants. Transplanted valves functioned well over time, with no ...

A 74-year-old man presents to the emergency department with a 1-day history of severe chest and back pain. He has a history of hypertension and has run out of medication. He has no history of similar ...

At the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), being held this weekend in Madrid, new cardiac care guidelines call for a more uniform, simplified and accessible approach to ...

BOSTON,--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pi-Cardia Inc., a global leader in the development of leaflet modification solutions for treating heart valves, today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

AS is an increasingly prevalent CVD, with CAVD being the principal cause in the developed world. Throughout the last two decades, experimental and clinical studies have demonstrated that CAVD is not a ...

"In people whose aortic valve consists of three leaflets—which is usually the case—you can see with the naked eye that calcification occurs primarily on the aortic side of the valve, not so much on ...

Many people around the age of 60 experience a decline in physical performance due to aortic valve stenosis. In this condition the heart valve, which is located between the left ventricle and the aorta ...

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Receive the the ...

I read with great interest the article “New Quantitative Model of Aortic Valve in PreTAVI Patients.”1 The authors implemented a new, specialized software (Auto Valve Analysis, Siemens; California, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transcatheter aortic valve replacement system designed to treat aortic regurgitation exceeded its safety and ...