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

Researchers have created a new noninvasive technique for performing a type of artery bypass that may change the future of ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I am a 5-foot-2 woman, weighing 125 pounds. I’m active; I walk an hour every day. I was diagnosed with mitral valve stenosis 37 years ago as a teenager. I received a replacement ...

Piedmont Heart Institute (PHI) physicians Pradeep K. Yadav, M.D., Director of Structural Interventions, and Vinod H. Thourani, M.D., Marcus Chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery, successfully performed ...

After heart valve replacement surgery, a doctor usually encourages people to resume eating as soon as possible. This may include foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins.

The success of TAVR has also sparked research into transcatheter solutions for other valve diseases, including mitral and ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive procedure to replace your aortic valve. The aortic valve controls blood flow from your heart to your aorta, the main artery that ...

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 ...

The cardiac surgery team at Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has become the first in the world to replace an artificial heart valve with a live tissue valve through a partial heart ...

The aortic valve sits between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta. It opens and closes with the heartbeat to allow blood to flow to the body without leaking back into the heart. It may need to be ...

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 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 ...