At 15 years, survival was similar among adults aged 50 to 69 years who underwent mitral valve replacement with a mechanical prosthetic or bioprosthetic valve, according to results of a new study.

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 ...

ATLANTA, Jan. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Artivion, Inc. (NYSE: AORT), a leading cardiac and vascular surgery company focused on aortic disease, today announced the publication of PROACT clinical trial ...

Less aggressive anticoagulation therapy, combined with low-dose aspirin, can be used safely in conjunction with a newer generation mechanical heart valve, a study shows. Patients under 65 years of age ...

In a comparison of mechanical prosthetic vs bioprosthetic mitral valves among patients 50 to 69 years of age undergoing mitral valve replacement, there was no significant difference in survival at 15 ...

A 68-year-old female with rheumatic mitral stenosis who underwent mitral valve replacement (Carbomedics 29-mm bileaflet valve) required reoperation for bleeding. She developed fever (38.5°C) on the ...

Mitral valve repair is a type of surgery to repair or replace the mitral valve of the heart. In the mitral valve repair techniques, the mitral valve is replaced either with a biological mitral valve ...

Dilator Inserted through the Avascular Tip of the Left Ventricle and Positioned in the Valve Orifice by a Finger in the Left Atrium. The dilator is opened cautiously to a previously adjusted limit of ...

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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded approval of the Masters Series Heart Valve with Hemodynamic Plus (HP) Sewing Cuff (Abbott) to include the 15-mm valve size, making it the smallest ...