When you have aortic or pulmonic heart valve disease, valve replacement surgery is usually performed. In some cases, the aortic valve can be repaired. During valve replacement surgery, the faulty ...

This is a means of replacing a faulty heart valve without resorting to open-heart surgery. During the fourth quarter, TAVR procedures generated $1.04 billion in sales, growing 6% year over year ...

Heart Valve Open Surgery vs. Other Procedures Open-heart surgery is the traditional option for all valve replacements.

In a groundbreaking event for Arizona healthcare, HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center recently became the first ...

Article continues below The sprinter's success arrived despite suffering from a faulty heart valve that was first picked up by a shool nurse close to 50 years ago. The Gosport-born star earned ...

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 ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.

“Until recently, tricuspid regurgitation could only be treated surgically with open-heart surgery ... guiding it through the vein to the faulty valve, where it will clip together sections ...

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