Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves ...

Doctors at Children's National Hospital performed Preston's surgery. An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor ...

The cardiac surgery team at Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has become the first in the world to replace an artificial heart valve with a live tissue valve through a partial ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (7News) — An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living valve from ...

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to design the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human.

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today that it received FDA approval for its Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR ...

A Maryland preteenager became the first patient in the world to receive a live heart valve in replacement of an artificial one during a partial heart transplant in a Washington, D.C., hospital.

The Jarvik-7 artificial heart, made of aluminum and plastic, was implanted in 1982 in a retired Des Moines, Wash., dentist, Barney Clark. He lived for 112 days.

An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living valve from a donor heart. The procedure ...

Common heart abnormalities treated with interventional cardiology methods include mitral valve regurgitation and aortic valve stenosis. Mitral valve regurgitation is a common form of heart valve ...

Decades after the first artificial heart in 1982 gave a man just over 100 days, technology has taken a giant leap forward. In this video, we explore the groundbreaking procedure that kept a man ...

"It happens when the aortic valve, the main outflow valve of the heart, stiffens and narrows. This causes reduced blood flow from the heart into the rest of the body. "Symptoms include chest pains ...