Dorothy Readhead was hoping an innovative heart operation to replace a faulty valve would give her a new lease of life – but ...

Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves ...

The Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve is a cutting-edge valve-replacement procedure, where an expandable valve was ...

Aortic stenosis happens when your aortic valve does not open all the way causing pressure to build in the left ventricle. This pressure blocks blood flow as it leaves the heart. In other words, the ...

Although many patients requiring long term anti-thrombotic therapy now can be treated with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), vitamin K antagonists, such as warfarin, remain the only treatment option ...

2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...

Studies funded by the organization have led to Nobel Prizes and to breakthroughs, including the development of artificial heart valves and cholesterol-lowering medications. Kobak was the only ...

Most MGIB events in the ENVISAGE‐TAVI AF (Edoxaban Compared to Standard Care After Heart Valve Replacement Using a Catheter in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation) trial occurred during the first 6 ...

Both act as one-way valves to help assist in propelling blood up the leg and back to the heart and lungs. EnVVeno currently has the final testing underway to seek approval for a pivotal trial of ...

bch.aphp.fr To become familiar with the contemporary epidemiology of heart valve disease, including endocarditis; To recognise the relationship between heart valve disease epidemiology, the ageing ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (7News) — An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living valve from ...