While the first innovators in the area of minimally invasive cardiac procedures began introducing methods such as finger-fracture valvuloplasty as early as the 1920s — in the case of England’s Henry ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin physicians are trying new ways to treat chronic heart conditions. Five cardiologists at Heart Hospital of Austin are the first in the nation to administer a valve replacement ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Your heart has four valves, which keep your blood flowing in the right direction. If one doesn’t work correctly, it can put you at higher risk for stroke or ...

BOSTON, August 21, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Symmetrical Health, LLC, doing business as Cimilre Breast Pumps, announced today that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a new ...

Abbott’s MitraClip implant just got a new sibling. The FDA has approved the company’s Tendyne system, as a minimally invasive heart replacement for patients with mitral valve disease that would ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The valve stem that protrudes outside of a wheel does not last forever and requires periodic replacement. The tire valve stem houses the valve ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- In a medical breakthrough at Duke Health in Durham, a group of doctors performed the world's first living mitral valve replacement, which helped save the lives of two girls from ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to those with a biological valve, new research has found. Patients aged between 50 ...

LOS ANGELES — Aortic mechanical valves are associated with better survival than bioprosthetic valves in patients aged 60 years or younger, showed 12-year survival data from a large surgical database.

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive, U.S ...