A xenograft bioprosthetic heart valve replaces a damaged valve in your heart. It’s made from tissue sourced from animals such as pigs or cows. Xenograft bioprosthetic heart valves are a treatment ...

After heart valve replacement surgery, a doctor usually encourages people to resume eating as soon as possible. This may include foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins.

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I am a 5-foot-2 woman, weighing 125 pounds. I’m active; I walk an hour every day. I was diagnosed with mitral valve stenosis 37 years ago as a teenager. I received a replacement ...

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Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Heart & Vascular Institute performed Kentucky’s first transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement using the Evoque system.  The catheter-based procedure, developed by ...

AMES, Iowa – You’re in the middle of the aorta, the body’s pipeline for oxygen-rich blood, looking back toward the heart’s primary pump, the left ventricle. The ventricle muscle contracts and the ...

A leaky heart valve means blood isn’t moving correctly through one of the heart’s four valves. This can cause complications like heart rhythm disturbances and heart failure. But treatment is usually ...

As it aims to broaden the reach of its replacement heart valves among younger patients, Edwards Lifesciences has put forward new clinical data showing its bioprosthetics can maintain their function ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor heart valve. Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade with ...

Replacement heart valves that grow inside the body are a step closer to reality following studies led by researchers at Imperial. The results are published in Communications Biology. The world's first ...

The aortic valve is one of the heart’s four vital valves. It ensures that blood flows in one direction, from the heart to the rest of the body through the aorta. Over time, this valve can become ...