Heart valves keep blood flowing in the right direction between the heart's four chambers. If a valve, such as the aortic or mitral valve, is diseased or faulty, it may require repair or, sometimes, ...

The Duo tricuspid valve repair device in the heart. [Image courtesy of CroíValve] CroíValve today announced the first patient ...

Transscatheter aortic valve replacement is a novel way to replace a diseased aortic valve without a median sternotomy. The first human TAVR was performed by Dr. Cribier in 2002. [33] There have ...

It was terrifying to face each day like that. Traditional surgery was ruled out because of my frailty, and I felt desperate ...

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators were no better than amiodarone for survival in chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy, though ...

Tioga Cardiovascular, a Shifamed portfolio company, today announced the first-in-human implants for its Luna TMVR system.

the less invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure. No one knows this better than Dr. Dearman, who has experienced heart valve failure and TAVR as a son, a surgeon — and a ...

Cardiologists at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have performed a cutting-edge heart valve replacement ...

A Cramlington woman, 77, had "one of the worst cases" of a heart condition doctors had ever seen. But experts at the Freeman ...

He discovered that my aortic valve was leaking and said he would monitor my situation. Over the next two years, my condition - called aortic regurgitation - worsened. By last May, I had to sit ...