Kennesaw State University mechanical engineering professor Philippe Sucosky has earned a prestigious American Heart Association (AHA) Institutional Enhancement Award to advance his study on bicuspid ...

A heart-valve bank is to be set up in the Railway Hospital at Perambur, the first of its kind in the Indian Railways.

New 20-year data show a survival rate of 90% with few repeat surgeries after this complex operation that can only be ...

The researchers reviewed data on nearly 110,000 patients who underwent surgical replacement of aortic valves between the ages ...

Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from ...

When going through open-heart surgery, patients like Williams are often so concerned about the operation itself that they may not consider what recovery will be like. “Many of o ...

These latest data reinforce years of smaller studies, but whether they should change practice is a matter of debate.