Heart valves can be replaced with open heart surgery or with less invasive procedures that don’t require your chest to be opened. Known as transcatheter valve replacement, this type of procedure has ...

A 92-year-old woman, deemed too frail for open-heart surgery due to severe heart failure, has regained her mobility and ...

Interventional cardiologist Muhammad Raza, MD ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. (WPVI) -- The TAVR procedure has revolutionized a challenging task in heart care: fixing stiff valves. And it has made the process much easier for patients, getting them back to ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. When the heart can’t pump blood through the body as well ...

Heart valve disease happens when one or more of your heart’s four valves don’t work properly, preventing oxygen-rich blood from moving efficiently through your heart and to your body. This forces your ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Julia Hargreaves spent years feeling exhausted by simple tasks. The feeling worsened over time, ...

Within days of a transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure at Independence Health Westmoreland Hospital, Bob Weaver ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have developed a simple, rapid, and low-radiation X-ray technique that can evaluate the ...

The aortic valve sits between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta. It opens and closes with the heartbeat to allow blood to flow to the body without leaking back into the heart. It may need to be ...