Your heart has four valves that open and close with each heartbeat to control the flow of blood. Heart valve diseases are conditions that affect one or more heart valves. Each heart valve condition ...

A steady stream of structural trial data, approvals, reimbursement decisions, and real-world rollouts arrived in 2025.

More than 330,000 children worldwide are born with a heart valve defect, and millions of others develop rheumatic heart disease requiring early valve replacement. Current prosthetic heart valves are ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year of follow ...

Routine echocardiography in cancer centers can spot severe valve disease earlier and trigger timely treatment decisions.

An AI algorithm could help to predict which patients might develop significant heart problems years in advance, just based on ECG readings. In a study, published today in The European Heart Journal, ...

Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

NOTE: A link to videos of the developing heart is at end of the release. The human heart confounds logic by starting to beat before it is fully formed —a developmental oddity shared by all vertebrate ...

Edwards Lifesciences announced it received FDA approval for its transcatheter valve with adaptive prestent for patients with severe pulmonary regurgitation. According to a company press release, the ...

A hidden defect could cause a blowout, sending a car or truck out of control - and the problem might not even be in your tires, a Rehoboth safety consultant says. Defective valve stems imported from ...