Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to those with a biological valve, new research has found.

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to ...

Kennesaw State University mechanical engineering professor Philippe Sucosky has earned a prestigious American Heart ...

Background Current guidelines recommend transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI ... namely severe circumferential calcification or severe atheromatous plaques of the entire ascending aorta ...

The researchers reviewed data on nearly 110,000 patients who underwent surgical replacement of aortic valves between the ages of 40 and 79. They found that in those aged 60 or younger, mechanical ...

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive ...

Aim This study aimed to systematically review and analyse the existing evidence on outcomes of emergency transcatheter aortic valve implantation (eTAVI) and emergency balloon aortic valvuloplasty ...

The four heart valves (tricuspid, pulmonary, mitral and aortic) open and close at just the right moment to keep the blood moving in the proper direction through the heart. It is helpful to visualize ...