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 led by the University of Bristol ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My father is having issues with his aortic valve. He is 53 years old and was told he needs to have a valve replacement. I was reading that there are different types of valves. Can ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor heart valve. Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade with ...

Mary Ann Kozlowski now has a new heart and a Guinness World Record. Kozlowski, a 70-year-old Erie native who lives in San Antonio, Texas, officially entered the record book in August but was notified ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s valve center. As a part of FOX 12’s ...

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

BOSTON, Aug. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Corcym today announced that its Perceval Plus ® sutureless aortic heart valve was used in a First-Ever robotic aortic valve replacement, through a tiny incision in ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota revealed an unprecedented medical innovation: they created a heart valve in a lab that is able to grow with the recipient over time. "It will be really a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — OHSU is mourning the loss of a legend in cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Albert Starr, who was best known as a cardiovascular surgeon who co-invented and implanted the world’s ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — February is American Heart Month. It’s a time when health care experts encourage people to practice heart health and get regular physicals and screenings. A Shawnee man’s decision ...

For baby Ellis Schwartz-Mosca and his parents Alyse and Mike, it was a very special day at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. The hospital this week unveiled its new pediatric hybrid ...