Doctors at Children's National Hospital performed Preston's surgery. An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor ...

2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...

The incidence of actual mechanical failure of the prosthetic device has not been high. The purpose of this note is to describe a patient who died twenty months after an aortic ball-valve ...

Patients with native or prosthetic valve HACEK endocarditis can be managed with a single agent administered intravenously for 4 weeks. Good oral hygiene is considered the mainstay of preventing ...

The theoretical and practical advantages of the flexible-leaflet prosthetic aortic valve make it worthy of continued development. Laboratory and clinical experience with a precision-molded, ...

The clinical, laboratory, and histopathological features of seven cases of Aspergillus fumigatus prosthetic valve endocarditis are presented. The exact nature of the lesion, a combination of infective ...

Women with a mechanical prosthetic heart valve were at greater risk of pregnancy complications compared with women with a biological valve, based on findings from the ROPAC III study published April ...

We report the case of a 64-year-old male patient with a prosthetic aortic valve who presented with clinical features of endocarditis confirmed by transoesophageal echocardiography. His blood cultures ...

Equus How did horses become some of the greatest athletes in the animal kingdom? Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have pinpointed a genetic mutation and evolutionary process that occurred ...