As the heart muscle contracts, it propels the blood out into the vascular system. The heart’s chambers and valves are arranged to direct the flow of the blood as the heart beats. The heart has two ...

Aortic stenosis, affecting nine million people globally, is often unnoticed as symptoms are mistaken for aging. This heart ...

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Secondly, an artificial valve can create “turbulence” in the blood flowing through your heart, meaning that the blood doesn’t flow quite as smoothly as it does with a natural valve. This creates ...

Mr Chua Wah Guan was probably the first patient here to have electrosurgery to replace an aortic valve. Read more at ...

Members of the team spoke with the News about their experiences performing the BATMAN procedure and its future implications.

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The aortic valve is 1 of 4 heart valves that keep blood flowing through the heart ... That makes it harder for the leaflets to open and let blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta. Aortic ...

The four heart valves – pulmonary and tricuspid on the right, and aortic and mitral on the left of the heart – control the blood flow. Heart valve disease is when one or more do not work as ...

When valves are diseased, they become stiff and narrow or leaky and ineffective, meaning they either do not open fully or do not close properly when controlling blood flow around the heart.