When heart valves are severely malformed or destroyed, they may need to be replaced with a new valve. Replacement valves may be either tissue (biologic) valves, which include animal valves and donated ...

bc.edu Medical professionals often deny patients who inject opioids a second or third heart valve replacement, even if such a surgery is medically indicated. However, such a position is not well ...

Although many patients requiring long term anti-thrombotic therapy now can be treated with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), vitamin K antagonists, such as warfarin, remain the only treatment option ...

The experiments suggest the use of veno-arterial pumping or of partial bypass with a heart-lung machine in acute cor pulmonale and in pulmonary congestion caused by abnormalities of the mitral valve ...

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 ...

Studies funded by the organization have led to Nobel Prizes and to breakthroughs, including the development of artificial heart valves and cholesterol-lowering medications. Kobak was the only ...

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.

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 ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome, is associated with a high rate of death and complications, and those rates were unchanged between 2016 and 2020, according to new ...

Lamin heart disease is a genetic condition that affects the heart's ability to pump blood and can cause life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms.It is caused by a mutation in the LMNA gene, which ...

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 ...