Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more of your heart valves don't work properly. Your heart's four valves keep blood moving in the right direction ...

For the first time, research has revealed the number of Britons who unknowingly have the condition – which can increase the ...

Heart valve surgery is a procedure to treat heart valve disease, which happens when at least one of the four heart valves is not working properly. However, many aspects of heart valve surgery may ...

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 ...

At UCLA Health, patients with valvular heart disease receive treatment from one of the most comprehensive and advanced cardiovascular programs in the world. As a long-time leader in heart valve ...

The US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) is expected to approve the JenaValve Trilogy System, a transcatheter aortic valve ...

Three postdoctoral researchers at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have received American Heart Association ...

Vitiligo, a skin condition causing depigmentation, may significantly increase the risk of serious cardiovascular events.

Pregnancy causes stress on the heart and circulatory system because the blood volume rises from 30% to 50%, which puts more ...