Unlike synthetic models, this heart was printed with actual biological tissue from a patient’s own cells. Could this be the beginning of lab-grown, on-demand human organs? Senate GOP Restores Medicaid ...

Biological valves containing a simple ring showed no disturbing artifacts, unlike valves with metal struts. 57 Of 83 patients with various biological valves, 62 showed excellent image quality, 16 ...

The prevalence of aortic stenosis (AS) and amyloid transthyretin cardiomyopathy (ATTR‐CM) increases with age. While the global prevalence of calcific aortic valve disease is estimated to be >2% in ...

Introduction. Aortic valve disease affects more than 26% of adult patients over 65 years of age1; the main indication for aortic valve replacement (AVR) is aortic stenosis (AS), an active biological ...

Introduction Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) affects 1% of the general population. NOTCH1 was the first gene associated with BAV. The proportion of familial and sporadic BAV disease attributed to NOTCH1 ...

Advanced tissue engineered heart valves must be constructed from multiple materials to better mimic the heterogeneity found in the native valve. ... Hybrid Pericardium with VEGF‐Loaded Hyaluronic Acid ...

Margaret Van Bruggen’s family had just 24 hours to decide whether to let Duke surgeons perform a heart-valve-transplant surgery that had never been done before.

Talk about a kid with a lot of heart. A 14-year-old from Frisco, Texas, developed a groundbreaking smartphone app to detect early signs of heart disease in just seven seconds.

A cheap over-the-counter supplement could hold the key to preventing heart failure in people with Type 2 diabetes, according to research presented Tuesday at the British Cardiovascular Society ...

A decade later, replacement heart valves were at a junction. Although repairing the mitral valve was already described in the late 1950s (43–45) and the aortic valve in the early 1960s (46–48) ...