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 ...

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ ...

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 ...

BiVacor announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its Total Artificial Heart (TAH) system.

The New York Times reported last week that Dr. Robert K. Jarvik, who led the development of the first artificial heart, ...

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

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 ...