THE M•PACT COMMON VALVE SYSTEM accepts dozens of trim options, allowing users to offer a showroom's worth of styles without hauling a warehouse's worth of different valves. The system allows for trim ...

The valves in your heart keep the blood flowing in only one direction. When a heart valve isn’t working, the blood flows in the wrong direction, making your heart work harder and reducing blood flow ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. In a pooled analysis of two trials comparing ...

Researchers are closing in on techniques to fix the most common valve problem in the heart without having to resort to open-heart surgery. Mitral valve regurgitation, which causes blood to flow ...

ROCHESTER, MN — Bioprosthetic valve thrombosis (BPVT) is more common than often perceived and develops long before the valve fails structurally in patients with symptoms referred for surgery, suggests ...

Dr. Kenneth Liao, chief of the division of cardiothoracic transplantation and circulatory support in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, tells you what you need ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Subclinical leaflet thrombosis occurs “frequently” in patients who received bioprosthetic valves for the treatment of aortic stenosis, with the problem occurring more commonly in ...

It's becoming increasingly clear that people with bicuspid aortic valves may also be at a higher risk of developing aortic aneurysms, a cardiologist researcher says. Up to 2 per cent of the population ...

Ever been to a large sporting event, such as a football or baseball game with 60,000 screaming fans? What you don’t hear through the screams is a clicking sound in the chests of about 1,500 of these ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. At 10 years, self-expanding transcatheter aortic valves ...