People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. The condition is more common in women and younger patients ...

Registry study of 600-plus pregnancies represents the largest cohort of pregnant women with a prosthetic heart valve. However scant, the available data on pregnant women with prosthetic valves did ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery.

VHD occurs when one or more of the heart's four valves don't open or close properly, leading to blood flow issues. According to the American Heart Association, the malady ranks among the highest ...

The first-of-its-kind Edwards Lifesciences Sapien M3 TMVR system uses a nitinol dock to anchor the replacement valve in the patient's heart.

Finding it difficult to find a donor heart that matched the boy's O blood type, doctors turned to a homegrown artificial heart. A team led by cardiac surgeon Dong Nianguo performed the five-hour ...

Edwards Lifesciences has received CE marking for its transfemoral transcatheter mitral valve replacement system, setting up ...

In a feat of surgical skill, Denton Cooley attached the temporary artificial heart device in only 47 minutes. Max Aguilera-Hellweg It doesn’t look like anything you’d want in your chest ...

A 7-year-old boy in China has become the youngest recipient of a magnetically levitated biventricular assist device — the smallest and lightest artificial heart available — marking a significant ...