An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor heart valve. Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade with ...

Allmed Solutions (TASE: ALMD), an Israeli biomedical company, has announced a dramatic success in a first-in-human trial, ...

On a cold December morning in 1960, a small surgical team at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston gathered around an ...

The cardiac surgery team at Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has become the first in the world to replace an artificial heart valve with a live tissue valve through a partial heart ...

A leaky heart valve occurs when a heart valve doesn’t close properly, allowing blood to flow backward. During pregnancy, this condition can affect circulation and increase strain on your heart. A ...

Heart valve disease has no effective long-term treatment, and people who suffer from it have to endure repeated, invasive surgeries throughout their lives to survive. Researchers at Georgia Tech and ...

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After heart valve surgery, focus on a nutrient-dense, high fiber diet rich in whole grains, fruits, nuts, and heart-healthy proteins and fats. Heart valve replacement surgery involves replacing a ...

Heart valve stiffness is caused by build up of calcium in the heart, which can make the heart pump blood less efficiently.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement at Bronson has helped hundreds overcome severe aortic stenosis with faster recovery ...