Among the most dangerous issues facing patients in need of replacement mechanical heart valves is aortic regurgitation —  a ...

Despite making up half of the 64 million people living with heart failure, patients with this common form have no access to ...

Abbott's heart valve was approved by the FDA this year. For her family, 3-year-old Sadie Rutenberg is living proof that medical miracles are real. For the first year of her life, the Seattle baby was ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor heart valve. Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade with ...

Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves (MHV)—and the one designed in their own lab appears to outperform the others.

Patrick NJ Schnegelsberg, Chief Executive Officer of Picard Medical, Inc. commented, “We are excited to attend the annual meeting of the American Heart Association to share the latest developments ...

After its first recipient died, French biomedical firm Carmat said on Monday it expected to try again to implant its experimental artificial heart in another patient "in several weeks". Artificial ...