Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to those with a biological valve, new research has found.

Every year, more than 5 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with heart valve disease, but this condition has no ...

Growing up with a heart disease, Ashley Pecora never knew what her life was going to look like—until two years ago when she ...

THE Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) has become the first health facility in Gauteng to successfully ...

With new transcatheter options for the repair or replacement of tricuspid valves, the role and timing of repair — whether surgical or minimally invasive — is entering a time of transition.

It sounds a little like Fantastic Voyage. Instead of a submarine and crew inside the body, a camera inserted into a patient’s ...

The Gauteng Health Department explained that the MitralClip itself is a “minute clip passed through a catheter, which aids ...

Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.