This heart anatomy diagram shows that blood flows from the ... As blood leaves each chamber of the heart, it passes through a valve. The tricuspid and mitral valves lie between the atria and ...

British cardiac patients will soon be fitted with heart valves that grow naturally within the body, marking a significant ...

The intricate diagrams of the heart were made by Leonardo 500 years ago. Mr Francis Wells from Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, says Leonardo's observations of the way the heart valves open and close was ...

You might need this operation if you have a problem with your heart’s aortic valve. If certain things go wrong with that valve, your doctor may recommend that you have surgery to replace it.

The research team wanted to find out the clinical outcomes for patients aged between 50 to 70 years undergoing elective and urgent heart valve replacement at the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) over ...

Heart valve disease has no effective long-term treatment, and people who suffer from it have to endure repeated, invasive surgeries throughout their lives to survive. Researchers at Georgia Tech ...

The FDA gave the OK for the North Chicago-based medical device maker's Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement.

More than a quarter of “healthy” adults over 60 have undiagnosed heart valve disease, a new study from the University of East Anglia in England finds. “Heart valve disease is when one or ...

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Bipeenchandra Bhamre, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai, explained, “Heart valves are the ...

British cardiac patients will soon be fitted with heart valves that grow naturally within the body, marking a significant advance in treating heart disease. An initial group of over 50 patients ...

A grandmother has been given a “second chance at life” after undergoing a world-first heart valve operation. Julia Butterworth, 53, had two valves in her heart replaced in 2007 after doctors ...