The country accounts for about 50% of the market share in the Asia Pacific. China’s mechanical heart valves market is ...

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 ...

The 8-year data may hold value for TAVI—the newest Sapien valve uses the same tissue—but many other variables differ.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...