Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a bionic hybrid heart designed not for patients, but for engineers—to better test out new designs of prosthetic heart valve ...

A team at the Oklahoma Heart Institute is helping patients across the globe with a groundbreaking device that could change how doctors treat mitral valve disease. Developed by Edwards Lifesciences and ...

Researchers at MIT have come up with a bionic heart that can be used to test heart valves and other cardiac implants under realistic conditions. Built out of an actual living heart, the new device ...

Valve replacement and repair are the only methods of managing severe valvular heart disease, but both often require repeated surgeries that are expensive, disruptive, and life-threatening. Most ...

A leaky heart valve means blood isn’t moving correctly through one of the heart’s four valves. This can cause complications like heart rhythm disturbances and heart failure. But treatment is usually ...

At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to help the ...

Calcification is the bane of the human heart valve. Human heart valves are plagued by stenosis 1 – or the thickening or stiffening of the valve leaflets caused by a build-up of calcium. Millions of ...

Researchers have developed a method for cheaply producing heart valves in the span of minutes that are functional immediately after being implanted into sheep. The scientists call their method ...

A heart valve specialist is a doctor who focuses on diagnosing and treating heart valve diseases. You may wish to consult one if you have questions about your genetic risk factors or need treatment ...

There are three types of bicuspid aortic valves — types 0, 1, and 2. Experts classify these types based on whether the leaflets of the valve have fused to form a ridge. A bicuspid aortic valve is a ...

Aortic stenosis is the most common type of stenosis, or narrowing, of the heart valves. Narrowing of the aortic valve restricts the blood flow from the ventricle into the aorta. It can be serious and ...