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 ...

The more frequently a hospital performs a minimally invasive technique called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, to replace a damaged aortic heart valve, the better patients fare, on ...

Among the most dangerous issues facing patients in need of replacement mechanical heart valves is aortic regurgitation —  a ...

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 ...

The FDA has approved the Tendyne device to replace the mitral heart valve through a small incision between the ribs. Dr. Paul ...

Developed by Shiyou Chen and Dunpeng Cai, faculty in the School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery, the "humanized" model is currently being used to test the efficiency of various drugs and medicines ...

The first ever "humanized" model for aortic valve calcification paves the way for testing potential treatments.

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 ...

A leaky heart valve occurs when a heart valve doesn’t close properly, allowing blood to flow backward. During pregnancy, this condition can affect circulation and increase strain on your heart. A ...

Physicians at Heart Hospital of Austin recently became the first in the nation to use new FDA approved heart valve technology. It will help patients who have a buildup of calcium that stiffens one of ...