The Ross Procedure, a highly specialized option for aortic valve replacement, is associated with significant long-term ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Shanahan needed surgery only twice in his life coming into this year, once to remove his tonsils when he was young, the other more recently when he needed a stent to open one of his blood ...

The Ross procedure, a highly specialized option for aortic valve replacement, is associated with significant long-term durability and excellent ...

People who underwent a minimally invasive procedure to have their heart's aortic valve replaced had similar health outcomes years after treatment as people who had surgery, Cedars-Sinai investigators ...

NEW YORK, NY—Midterm results out to 3 years show that transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve (ViV) replacement for a failed surgical valve is a safe procedure associated with lower risks of death and ...

Cleveland Clinic surgeons are using a new robotic-assisted procedure to replace a damaged aortic valve through a small neck incision. Doctors say the technique may shorten recovery time compared with ...

Aortic valve dysfunction is a rare but relevant long-term complication after orthotopic heart transplantation (HTX). Treatment options include surgical (SAVR) and transcatheter (TAVR) aortic valve ...

Bicuspid aortic valve surgery involves repairing or replacing a bicuspid valve. The procedure corrects a congenital condition in which a person has two cusps instead of three. A bicuspid aortic valve ...