PARIS, France—Treating a failed bioprosthesis via transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)—the so-called valve-in-valve approach—is feasible and often effective but technically demanding, ...

Researchers revealed this Sunday a new heart valve that can be implanted without surgery. The device may hold promise for tens of thousands of elderly patients who might not survive a standard ...

A team of heart surgeons at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden recently performed a unique valve replacement procedure on a 25-year-old pregnant woman, the first known case of its kind in ...

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 ...

At Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, more faulty heart valves are getting fixed without a single chest being cracked open.

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A simpler alternative to open heart surgery is gaining popularity, but some find ​their new valves don’t last as long as they ...

TMVR is a minimally invasive but technically challenging procedure to replace a mitral valve without the need for conventional open-heart surgery, indicated to treat selected cases of narrowed mitral ...

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 ...