As you get older, you may expect to feel a little slower. Climbing the stairs might leave you feeling winded. Yard work takes ...

University of California, Irvine and Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health researchers have identified fundamental structural and functional differences between two major causes of mitral valve stenosis ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year of follow ...

Doctors at Kauvery Hospital, Chennai, successfully performed a complex heart valve procedure on a 78-year-old patient.

R O C H E S T E R, N.Y., March 13 -- James Dauteuil probably never expected he would be wearing a piece of “leather” inside his heart. But Dauteuil, 76, is now one of three people in the Rochester ...

Owen Monroe was born with a deadly heart defect. Thanks to a cutting-edge surgery, now he’s starting preschool. By Simar Bajaj Owen Monroe was born blue. The arteries in his heart that transport blood ...

Aortic valve stenosis (AVS) is a significant health concern affecting over 1.5 million Americans and millions more globally.

A congenital heart defect is a condition you’re born with. Types of heart defects vary in severity — with some, you’ll need surgery as a child, while others don’t need treatment until later in life or ...