A grandmother has been given a “second chance at life” after undergoing a world-first heart valve operation. Julia Butterworth, 53, had two valves in her heart replaced in 2007 after doctors ...

Medtronic Hall tilting disc and St. Jude Medical bileaflet valves (prostheses authorized by the ... requiring outpatient treatment and causing no permanent impairment; Grade III–heart valve prosthesis ...

Low Bileaflet AVR without atrial fibrillation ... older (caged-ball or tilting disk) AVR, recent stroke or TIA (within past 3–6 mo, atrial fibrillation (CHADS 2 score of 5 or 6), recent VTE ...

Bileaflet mechanical heart valves (MHV) remain a viable option for aortic ... supplanted all the other mechanical designs (namely ball-and-cage and tilting disc valves). At the same time, their ...

Medtronic is pumping up its activation of heart valve disease patients. The company has partnered with an advocacy group for heart valve disease, Heart-Valve-Surgery.com, to create a digital ...

The world’s first successful heart valve replacement surgery was performed in 1960 at what’s now Oregon Health & Science University. Behind this life-saving innovation was an unlikely ...

Raipur: A 13-year-old child underwent a heart ... valve was repaired using a cutting-edge 3D contouring technique. This complex operation, known as Mitral valve replacement with bileaflet ...