The tricuspid valve sits between the heart's right atrium and right ventricle. The bicuspid valve sits between the left atrium and left ventricle. Learn more.

LONDON, England—There are more positive signs that current-generation transcatheter valves, originally designed to treat tricuspid aortic stenosis (AS), do just fine in the setting of bicuspid disease ...

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement had similar rates of stroke and all-cause mortality at 30 days and 1 year regardless of whether they had bicuspid or tricuspid aortic ...

There is currently no way to stop calcification of the aortic valve. If all else fails, the valve must be replaced. To better understand the development of this common disease, researchers from Bochum ...

The agency’s decision supports broader access to a minimally invasive treatment for patients with severe tricuspid ...

There are three different types of bicuspid aortic valves, ranging from types 0 to 2. The type depends on whether the leaflets of the valve have fused to form a ridge.

St. Rita’s Medical Center now offers non-surgical treatment for tricuspid regurgitation or leaky heart valve, a condition in ...

The heart valves work by ensuring that blood flows in a forward direction and doesn’t back up or cause leakage. Heart valve disorders prohibit this.

Transcatheter tricuspid valve annuloplasty is designed to improve the function of the tricuspid valve with less morbidity and mortality than conventional surgical annuloplasty. It has been proposed as ...

In other systems, sutures are used to either exclude the posterior leaflet and create a functional bicuspid valve or to reduce the area of the tricuspid annulus. Adequate reduction of tricuspid ...