Dear Dr. Roach: I'm a 79-year-old female. Recently, I was diagnosed with moderate calcification of leaflets on my mitral valve. I have no symptoms but heard from a recent talk that even moderate ...

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

The first ever "humanized" model for aortic valve calcification paves the way for testing potential treatments. Researchers at the University of Missouri are working to develop a new platform for ...

Background Rheumatic mitral valve disease remains a major global health challenge. Determining optimal surgical approaches is ...

Primary results of the ENCIRCLE trial led to approval of the M3 device by the US Food and Drug Administration as the first ...

Two years ago, doctors told 64-year-old Keith Jones that he would need open heart surgery to fix a faulty heart valve. Jones was diagnosed with aortic stenosis. "Aortic stenosis is a thickening; a ...

The human body has sophisticated defenses against the deposition of calcium minerals that stiffen heart tissues, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at UCLA ...

The mitral valve is inside a person’s heart. A person with mitral valve disease may require mitral valve repair surgery as a treatment. A person’s heart contains four chambers. The two upper chambers ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Aortic valve stenosis (AVS) is a significant health concern affecting over 1.5 million Americans and millions more globally. Researchers at Mayo Clinic are exploring the use of a ...

If you have severe tricuspid valve regurgitation, doctors may recommend repair or replacement surgery. The tricuspid valve is one of four valves in your heart’s four chambers. It’s on the right side ...