Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Scally with Prairie Cardiovascular in O’Fallon, Illinois, explained Mitral Valve Disease, a ...

The Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) has increased its coverage for open heart surgeries to almost P1 million and launched ...

Discover how recent advancements in cardiovascular medicine, including TAVI and TEER, are revolutionizing heart disease ...

Sue Dumbauld got an alert from her Apple Watch that her heart rate was dangerously high. This inspired her to exercise ahead ...

Women with conditions like mitral valve prolapse or rheumatic mitral valve disease often have more severe symptoms ... The ...

More than 60,000 people die from heart valve disease (HVD) in the U.S. each year, according to the American Heart Association ...

Minimally invasive heart procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip placement to treat mitral regurgitation can improve quality of life, and even be lifesaving, for ...

The tricuspid valve is anatomically complex. It’s often called the “forgotten valve” because of its position in the back of ...

The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) has developed a globally inclusive standard dataset of 16 patient-centered outcome measures for people with heart valve disease, ...

system demonstrates favourable clinical outcomes and valve performance at 30 days in patients with severe bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) stenosis. Severe BAV stenosis presents a unique challenge for TAVI ...

For some patients with atrial fibrillation (Afib, AF) and valvular heart disease (VHD), direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) appeared to offer better prevention of stroke and thromboembolic events ...