The goal of heart valve surgery is to repair or replace a malfunctioning heart valve to prevent the development of life-threatening conditions. Valves are one-way gates in the heart that keep blood ...

Heart valve surgery is a procedure to treat heart valve disease, which happens when at least one of the four heart valves is ...

Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. In the Step Thru below, see the complicated path the blood takes as it moves in and out of the heart.

“The invention of the artificial heart valve increased the quality of life ... or pumps, to the human heart, another kind of pump. The much younger Dr. Starr embraced the idea and began a ...

Congenital heart defects (CHDs ... Food and Drug Administration approval process for the first in-human implant. “The IRIS valve has been designed according to origami concepts such that ...

2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...

Replacing a heart valve is a delicate procedure, with the choice of valve and its replacement critical to ensuring proper blood flow and heart function. If done incorrectly, blood flow disruptions ...

Edwards saw the human heart as a pump ... Starr convinced Edwards they needed a successful artificial heart valve first and they agreed to embark on an ambitious project, each offering expertise ...

Her record: the longest survivor of a double heart-valve replacement. Kozlowski lived with the artificial heart valves for nearly 50 years until she underwent a heart transplant June 10.