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

For complex cases, doctors may use MRI to get detailed images of the heart’s valves and chambers. However, they typically reserve this test when they need more information to guide treatment.

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 ...

Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a potentially fatal condition, yet it's difficult to diagnose with a regular stethoscope. A ...

There are often no noticeable symptoms, but some patients may only have a heart murmur, a "swishing noise" doctors can hear ...

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

The heart may be small, but its rhythm powers life. When something throws that rhythm off—especially after surgery—it can ...

At two years of follow-up, patients with a poorly functioning tricuspid valve in the heart who received the best available medical therapy plus a minimally invasive procedure using a clip to ...

For conditions such as truncus arteriosus and severe aortic stenosis without good function, infants not only need new heart valves and arteries to survive, but the new tissue also needs to grow ...

Babies born with heart defects may be at increased risk for cancer within the first 10 years of life, according to new research that suggests mothers may ...

A study led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego sheds new light on how a type of heart valve disease, called aortic valve stenosis, progresses differently in males and females.