Born Troy Andrews, Trombone Shorty got his start (and nickname) earlier than most: at four, he made his first appearance at Jazz Fest performing with Bo Diddley; at six, he was leading his own ...

Patients received a new treatment for heart valve disease, which did not require riskier open-heart surgery or travel to London. Five people from Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Peterborough ...

Chronic venous insufficiency is when there isn't enough blood flow to the legs. Learn more about what happens when the veins in your legs stop working right.

Part 3 of Richard O. Boyer’s “The Hot Bach” Profile series about the jazz musician Duke Ellington and his rise to international fame during the Jim Crow era.

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Aortic valve stenosis is the most prevalent heart valve disease worldwide. Although interventional treatment options have rapidly improved in recent years, symptomatic aortic valve stenosis is still ...

Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) occurs when an implanted prosthetic valve is too small for the patient; severe PPM is defined as an indexed effective orifice area (iEOA) <0.65 cm2/m2 following ...

Background—Few studies have explored the long-term function of cryopreserved homograft valves used for reconstruction of the right ventricular tract (RVOT) in patients with congenital heart disease.