Edward Barnes promised his dad he'd run Boston. "Even the greatest challenges can lead to extraordinary accomplishments," he ...

Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement without the need for open-heart surgery. For years, Mertz, a great-grandmother from Essex ...

The Heart Valve Devices Market is valued at USD 12.18 Billion in 2024 and is expected to reach USD 41.88 Billion by 2035 at a ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful ...

The titanium heart, invented by Daniel Timms, uses magnetic levitation technology with a single rotating disc to pump blood.

Researchers have designed a handheld device that could potentially replace stethoscopes in heart valve disease screening ...

Edwards’ device, dubbed Sapien M3, is the first approved system to use a transfemoral approach to treating mitral ...

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a valve designed to treat aortic regurgitation had an overall mortality rate of just 8.1% at one year, well below the trial's ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery.

A study led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego sheds new light on how a type of heart valve disease, called aortic valve stenosis, progresses differently in males and females.

In Australia, an artificial heart made of titanium kept a man alive for 100 days while a donor heart was eventually found, marking the longest period that someone has survived on the innovation.

Adults have a suite of options available, including mechanical valves and bioprosthetic valves, some of which don’t even require open-heart surgery. For babies and young children, however ...