Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

Mitral valve disease is when the heart’s mitral valve stops functioning correctly. This can lead to blood not flowing around the body correctly and cause several health complications. The mitral valve ...

Take this news to heart. You could have a common condition that increases your risk of heart attack and stroke — and not even know it. More than a quarter of “healthy” adults over 60 have undiagnosed ...

Credit: Getty Images Clinicians must be vigilant for subtle signs of BAV in children. Once diagnosed, management decisions should be individualized. Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common ...

At the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), being held this weekend in Madrid, new cardiac care guidelines call for a more uniform, simplified and accessible approach to ...

Aortic valve stenosis (AVS) can result from heart abnormalities that may be hereditary, but it commonly develops in older adults due to scarring and calcium buildup in the valve cusps. The valve cusps ...

Serotonin can impact the mitral valve of the heart and potentially accelerate a cardiac condition known as degenerative mitral regurgitation, according to a new study. Serotonin can impact the mitral ...

Heart valve disorders are characterised by reduced or lost function of one or more of the four valves of the heart and may occur as the result of congenital defects or damage due to infection or ...

MONTH AND TOMORROW IS HEART VALVE DISEASE AWARENESS DAY. SO RIGHT NOW I’M JOINED BY DOCTOR ARUN KUMAR REDDY WHO IS A CARDIOLOGIST AT UPMC. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME ...

A multisociety taskforce has created a method for standardizing how patient outcomes are reported for heart valve disease (HVD), regardless of which valve is being treated and how. The objectives, the ...

Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more of your heart valves don't work properly.