The Ross procedure for aortic valve replacement, which involves a pulmonary valve autograft, achieved low rates of ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services proposed a new set of policies that appear to expand the use of a procedure that allows doctors to replace the aortic heart valve without performing open ...

Vincent Cuzzo, 67, of Tamarac, was suffering from aortic stenosis, a narrowing of the aortic valve opening that restricts blood flow. On Jan. 18, he received a sutureless aortic valve replacement at ...

The Ross procedure is a major heart surgery. It involves replacing an abnormal aortic valve with a valve from the other side of the heart. The Ross procedure is a type of aortic valve replacement ...

Your mitral valve is one of the four major valves in your heart. It helps blood flow through your heart and out to the rest of your body. When this valve isn’t working correctly, it puts stress on ...

In patients with a poorly functioning bioprosthetic mitral valve in the heart, a minimally invasive procedure to insert a new valve was associated with a lower rate of death or disabling stroke within ...

Clinicians at Piedmont Heart Institute at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital performed the first HighLife Trans-septal Mitral Valve Replacement in the United States on July 13, as part of an early feasibility ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a common heart valve condition in which the mitral valve cannot close properly. Cardiologists may implant mitral valve clips to help the valve close effectively. Mitral ...

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 ...