It involves less pain, less bleeding, and there’s lower risk of infection,” said cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Sanjay Tripathi.

It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it ...

McLaren Northern Michigan performed 75 transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedures in 2025, more than double the ...

St. Luke’s University Health Network has reached an important milestone in advanced heart care. Members of St. Luke’s ...

Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

A grandmother has been given a “second chance at life” after undergoing a world-first heart valve operation. Julia Butterworth, 53, had two valves in her heart replaced in 2007 after doctors detected ...

You can develop shortness of breath if you have heart valve problems. This is because your heart valves help move blood through the four chambers of your heart and throughout your body. Your heart ...

NEW ORLEANS — Cardiologists are reporting a major advance: A long-awaited study suggests that many people with a bad aortic valve, the heart’s main gate, can avoid open-heart surgery and have a new ...

Bicuspid aortic valve surgery involves repairing or replacing a bicuspid valve. The procedure corrects a congenital condition in which a person has two cusps instead of three. A bicuspid aortic valve ...

Public health initiatives are needed to understand and tackle "striking" inequalities in provision of aortic valve replacement (AVR) in England, with women, Black and Asian people, and those living in ...

A new study published in the BMJ Heart showed that in infective endocarditis (IE) surgery, anemia and transfusion are quite ...

The aortic valve can stiffen and narrow with age, making the heart strain to push blood through it. Severe cases are treated with surgery to replace the valve, but that's risky for many older people ...