An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital — New Braunfels offers a minimally invasive heart valve procedure called transcatheter mitral ...

Mitral valve replacement is a procedure that replaces a patient’s damaged valve with a new valve, either made from biological or mechanical structures. The device can either be implanted by open ...

Replacing this valve with a living transplanted valve will give Preston freedom from a lifetime of blood-thinning medication. Research also shows these live tissue implants should grow along with him, ...

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 heart ...

Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient’s chest through their sternum (breast bone). In many cases today, a minimally ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW) today announced the company’s SAPIEN M3 mitral valve replacement system received CE Mark for the transcatheter ...

Mitral valve prolapse occurs when portion(s) of one or both of the mitral valve leaflets or the tissue filaments (”chordae”) that hold these leaflets in place become floppy and allow these leaflet ...

The Children’s National partial heart transplant replaced the heart’s mitral valve, which is the valve between the left upper chamber (left atrium) and the left lower chamber (left ventricle ...