Protecting your heart starts with understanding how it works. Heart valve diseases are conditions that can disrupt the flow ...

Recent research from Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (KL Krems) provides important new insights into how ...

A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s.

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

The implantation of the new valve is done without the need to open the heart completely, thereby drastically reducing the ...

Roger Black was told two things when his cardiologist sat him down with the news that he must prepare for open heart surgery.

Early surgical or transcatheter aortic valve replacement is not typically recommended for severe aortic stenosis in the ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest ...

As people age, a buildup of calcium on the aortic valve can make it thicker and stiffer leading to aortic stenosis.

A recent study has highlighted the sex-specific implications of myocardial fibrosis on mortality in patients with severe ...