A newborn's heart will grow roughly 15 times larger in volume by the time adulthood is reached — a remarkable transformation ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year of follow ...

University of California, Irvine and Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health researchers have identified fundamental structural and functional differences between two major causes of mitral valve stenosis ...

An AI algorithm could help to predict which patients might develop significant heart problems years in advance, just based on ECG readings. In a study, published today in The European Heart Journal, ...

As you get older, you may expect to feel a little slower. Climbing the stairs might leave you feeling winded. Yard work takes ...

Doctors at Kauvery Hospital, Chennai, successfully performed a complex heart valve procedure on a 78-year-old patient.

R O C H E S T E R, N.Y., March 13 -- James Dauteuil probably never expected he would be wearing a piece of “leather” inside his heart. But Dauteuil, 76, is now one of three people in the Rochester ...

UC Irvine and Jefferson Health investigators identify distinct structural and blood-flow signatures in two major forms of mitral stenosis. Findings highlight limitations of applying rheumatic-based ...

Mitral valve prolapse treatment aims to relieve symptoms, prevent complications, and improve the quality of life of people who have blood that leaks back into their heart’s left atrium. Mitral valve ...