The goal of heart valve surgery is to repair or replace a malfunctioning heart valve to prevent the development of life-threatening conditions. Valves are one-way gates in the heart that keep blood ...

Sandra Lesenfants, senior vice president of Abbott’s Structural Heart business, shares an update on MitraClip, TriClip, and ...

It can put you at a higher risk of having a rupture or dissection ... or in the wrong direction Problems with your heart valves that help control the timing and direction of the flow of your ...

As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

During this surgery, the damaged valve is removed and replaced with an artificial valve. The valve replacement is typically an open-heart surgery. A minimally invasive surgery or a catheter procedure ...

1), who asked if I would collaborate with him in the development of an artificial heart. He was serious. I told him it was too soon, that we did not even have satisfactory artificial valves ...

2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...

T he rupture of the heart's free wall is a rare yet serious consequence, constituting as one of the potential complications of a heart attack. It transpires in 85% of patients within the first ...

But 3D printing isn’t the only way to build polymer structures, as [Riley] shows us with this fascinating attempt to create electrospun heart valves. Now, you may never have heard of ...

Dr. Hadi Mohammadi and his fellow researchers in the Heart Valve Performance Laboratory at UBC Okanagan are focused on ...

For most of history, the human heart has been regarded as a forbidden organ too delicate to tamper with. It might have remained so, were it not for World War II. Military doctors, facing injury ...

Impact of sex on in-hospital mortality and 90-day readmissions in patients undergoing transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR): Analysis from the nationwide readmission database.