NEW YORK CITY -- Heart valve innovation has made polymer valves a reality, with one such device boasting good 1-year outcomes ...

Foldax today announced one-year results from a clinical trial of its Tria polymer mitral heart valve offering.

Artifacts were least in closed valve position and increased with rapid leaflet motion. 26 Sorin and Björk-Shiley monoleaflet valves consistently displayed severe artifacts related to their ...

Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (PPVI) is first‐line therapy for some congenital heart disease patients with right ventricular outflow tract dysfunction. The hemodynamics improvements after ...

Introduction In non-elderly adults, aortic valve replacement (AVR) with conventional prostheses yield poor long-term outcomes. Recent publications suggest a benefit of the Ross procedure over ...

Objective To determine the early and long-term outcomes of conventional aortic root (ARR) and valve-sparing root replacement (VSRR) using a standard perioperative and operative approach. Methods We ...

Results In the Swedish population (n=10 164 211), the incidence of VHD was 63.9 per 100 000 person-years, with aortic stenosis (AS; 47.2%), mitral regurgitation (MR; 24.2%) and aortic regurgitation ...

Pulmonary valve regurgitation: Your pulmonary valve separates your right ventricle from the blood vessels supplying your lungs. Regurgitation can cause blood to flow back into your right ventricle ...