Steven and Lori Stokes took their 13-year-old daughter, Isabelle, to Oregon Health & Science University for open-heart surgery in August 2025. The team, led by Dr. Ashok Muralidaran, was to install a ...

Doctors warn that persistent breathlessness and fatigue may signal heart valve disease, a growing condition that can lead to ...

While a person may need medication or surgery to manage heart valve disease, incorporating exercise into a treatment plan can offer additional benefits. It can increase heart function and fitness.

In cases of serious aortic valve disease, choosing a new heart valve is particularly difficult for young women who wish to become pregnant. A new Swedish registry study from Karolinska Institutet ...

New research simultaneously published today in JSCAI and presented at New York Valves 2026 reported favorable one-year ...

Heart valves allow blood to flow one way and prevent it from flowing in the wrong direction. The tricuspid valve controls blood flow between the right atrium and right ventricle. The bicuspid or ...

Researchers have developed a method for cheaply producing heart valves in the span of minutes that are functional immediately after being implanted into sheep. The scientists call their method ...

A study led by the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, has found that mechanical heart valves provide better long-term survival than biological heart valves in patients aged 50-70 years. The ...

Valves are one-way gates in the heart that keep blood flowing between the four chambers of the heart. There are four valves in the heart and each one has strong flaps called “leaflets” that control ...

Heart valve disease risk factors include aging, family history of heart conditions, metabolic syndrome (high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, obesity), and ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a heart condition that occurs when the mitral valve does not close properly, allowing blood to flow backward into the left atrium. Symptoms do not always occur. When they ...