Protecting your heart starts with understanding how it works. Heart valve diseases are conditions that can disrupt the flow ...

Mitral valve disease is a condition that affects the mitral valve, causing blood to leak backward or flow too slowly, and can ...

A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s.

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest ...

There are four valves inside the heart. Heart valves control how blood is carried out of the heart and distributed to the ...

Roger Black was told two things when his cardiologist sat him down with the news that he must prepare for open heart surgery.

The implantation of the new valve is done without the need to open the heart completely, thereby drastically reducing the ...

Recent research from Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (KL Krems) provides important new insights into how ...

In early February, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to leave hospital with a virtually ...

Capstan Medical, a startup focused on robotic-assisted mitral and tricuspid valve replacement, recently completed its first ...