A 51-year-old man from Kolkata made a miraculous recovery after surviving a torn aorta — one of the most life-threatening ...

The aortic valve sits between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta. It opens and closes with the heartbeat to allow blood to flow to the body without leaking back into the heart. It may need to be ...

Christine Seppi was more than 1,500 miles away from home when her painful symptoms started. Seppi and her husband traveled from their hometown of Pittsburgh to visit family in Utah when she started ...

Saint Alphonsus in Boise earned a three-star TAVR ranking from STS and ACC, placing it among the nation’s top heart programs ...

Lynne Versaci underwent 11-hour open-heart surgery in August. A group of friends have created a fundraiser event to support ...

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) gives broadly comparable results to conventional open surgery, with equal efficacy, faster recovery time and improved quality of life at one year, ...

Mumbai: A 65-year-old morbidly obese woman weighing 95 kg (BMI 41) with metabolic syndrome, hypertension, diabetes, and ...

Patients at Baylor Medicine, the primary multidisciplinary clinical practice of Baylor College of Medicine, and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center who have experienced complex aortic aneurysms can now ...

A 76-year-old man who died after major surgery may have had a better chance of recovery if there had been "fuller" pre-operative investigations, an inquest has heard. Edmund Jones, 76, from Rhyl, died ...

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 ...