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

An innovative, minimally invasive procedure is reducing the risk faced by patients with heart valve disease and improving ...

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 ...

According to the NIH, about 1.6 million people in the U.S. suffer from a condition where the tricuspid valve does not ...

Future Cardiol. 2012;8(1):101-114. Right atrium Chari network, Eustachian valve, crista terminalis, catheter/pacemaker leads, lipomatous hypertrophy of interatrial septum, pectinate muscles ...

OPB has premiered a new documentary that traces the development of the world’s first successful artificial mitral heart valve by a young, Oregon-based cardiac surgeon and a retired engineer.