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 ...

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

Young patients who have undergone the Ross procedure for aortic valve disease have shown excellent long-term survival, the ...

Young patients who have undergone the Ross procedure for aortic valve disease have shown excellent long-term survival, the ...

"As an aside, the Ross procedure, which is my preference in this age group, is the only aortic valve replacement procedure ...

A man died at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford last year after waiting seven months for elective heart surgery, an inquest has heard.

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 ...

The heart is a muscular organ roughly the size of your fist. As the heart muscle contracts, it propels the blood out into the vascular system. The heart’s chambers and valves are arranged to direct ...