At baseline, the mechanical valve group tended to be younger (55.7 vs 65.2) and had less aortic stenois (82.4% vs 89.5%), but ...

The Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Sudan reported on the outcomes of 307 pregnancies in women with mechanical heart valves, revealing a concerning maternal mortality rate of 4.9% and a ...

Multiple societies endorsed the new appropriate-use criteria for implantable cardioverter defibrillators, cardiac ...

Fluid dynamics plays a crucial role in understanding the behavior of blood flow through mechanical heart valves and the heart's chambers. Recent research has focused on using advanced ...

On Jan. 7th, the male and female patients, both in their 80's, received the revolutionary valves delivered via a catheter, foregoing the need for conventional open-heart surgery. Antony Kaliyadan ...

Two patients at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital receive recently FDA-approved Evoque Tricuspid Valve Replacements for severe tricuspid regurgitation. "These groundbreaking procedures represent a ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a heart attack, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Heart disease is a term used to describe a constellation of conditions that can affect the heart and/or its valves, vessels, structure ... or your doctor may also talk to you about surgery. A problem ...

Minimally invasive medtech can include surgical robots, miniaturized implants and therapeutic catheters — but it depends who ...

On Jan. 7th, the male and female patients, both in their 80's, received the revolutionary valves delivered via a catheter, foregoing the need for conventional open-heart surgery. Antony Kaliyadan, MD, ...

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