There was a time not long ago when Barletta Hansen's days of good health looked numbered because of something she shared with her mother: a leaky heart valve. "Our cardiologist said it's very unusual ...

Penn’s School of Medicine is one of 22 institutions nationwide participating in a clinical trial for a procedure that may offer high-risk heart patients a safer alternative to open-heart surgery. The ...

University of Iowa Health Care recently debuted a new, minimally invasive heart valve procedure after years of research and months of work toward approval by the Federal Drug Administration. A second ...

With his smooth, fleshy face and twinkly eyes, Herbert Auspitz, 93, had an air of vigor, but he was fading fast. He had a fatal disease with a prognosis worse than that of most cancers: severe aortic ...

The Ross procedure, which can be used to treat young people with severe aortic valve disease, has seen wide swings in popularity over the years, but now, with consistent data on long-term survival and ...

October 2, 2008 (Lisbon, Portugal) — Surgeons testing the transapical delivery method for the Edwards Sapien transcatheter aortic valve say the latest results from pre- and postapproval studies in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Broncos coach John Fox went under the knife for aortic valve replacement surgery Monday, he had a procedure that more than 60,000 Americans undergo each ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a common heart valve condition in which the mitral valve cannot close properly. Cardiologists may implant mitral valve clips to help the valve close effectively. Mitral ...

In the first multicenter trial of its kind, Yale researchers tested a new device that lowers the risk of stroke and cognitive decline in patients undergoing heart-valve replacement. The preliminary ...