One cause to a malfunctioning heart may have to do with a bad valve, specifically the mitral valve. If the flaps of the valve malfunction and blood flows backwards - the impact can be no big deal ...

Cardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland, Wash., company with a technology to treat heart valve malfunction, has raised $53 million ...

Loma Linda University Children's Hospital recently made history performing the first pediatric partial heart transplant in ...

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 ...

the valves from her own heart could help two other girls, Margaret and Kensley, who were also hospitalized. “At first, I was confused because I thought once the heart is bad, the entirety of it ...

Partial heart transplants provide a range of lifesaving options for children with complex congenital heart conditions, and ...

Heart valve disease has no effective long-term treatment, and people who suffer from it have to endure repeated, invasive surgeries throughout their lives to survive. Researchers at Georgia Tech ...

Yale operates first the BATMAN procedure in CT, a less invasive heart treatment offering faster recovery and new hope for ...

Doctors knew she needed a heart transplant ... “Instead of having the one hole in my valve I had three, which is three times as bad. And that’s when the doctor said you really need a new ...