Find out what you need to know about your aortic valve — where it's located, what it does, and how it works. Learn about the symptoms, causes, and treatments for aortic valve conditions.

If you have a leaky heart valve, you may have surgery to repair or replace it. ... Once they're the right length, the valve will seal as it should. Reshaping: Part of the flap is cut out, ...

There is currently no way to stop calcification of the aortic valve. If all else fails, the valve must be replaced. To better ...

Every year, approximately 13,000 heart valve replacements are performed in England and 300,000 worldwide - and the numbers ...

Journi Kelly, 11, needed a new heart. But her heart valves helped 2 other girls and allowed doctors to perform the 1st living mitral valve replacement. ... 'You gave me a part of your old heart' ...

The findings highlight the importance of having an EP versed in lead management on the heart valve team, one expert says.

With traditional valve replacements, “kids grow but the valves don’t,” said Taufiek Rajab, MD, a pediatric heart surgeon at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, who ...

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