Partial heart transplants provide a range of lifesaving options for children with complex congenital heart conditions, and ...

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

Cardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland, Wash., company with a technology to treat heart valve malfunction, has raised $53 million ...

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 ...

The Duke team performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, a type of partial heart transplant, which Duke ...

More than 11 million Americans are living with heart-valve disease at this very moment, leading to 25,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. But an estimated three in four people have little to no ...

Mitral valve disease is a condition that affects the mitral valve, causing blood to leak backward or flow too slowly, and can lead to serious heart complications, and treatment options include ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - 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 valve center. As a part of ...

Meanwhile, PhilHealth Circular No. 2005-005 created the new Z Benefit Package for heart valve repair and replacement for valvular heart disease (VHD). The rate for mitral valve (which controls ...

Feb 27 (Reuters) - (This Feb. 25 Health Rounds newsletter excerpt has been corrected to indicate in the headline and the first item of the story that Sanofi is no longer involved in the drug's ...

Loma Linda University Children's Hospital recently made history performing the first pediatric partial heart transplant in ...