A leaky heart valve means blood isn’t moving correctly through one of the heart’s four valves. This can cause complications like heart rhythm disturbances and heart failure. But treatment is usually ...

Researchers have developed a promising synthetic heart valve that may eventually be used for growing children. Harvard’s Wass Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...

Researchers create biodegradable heart valves using shape-memory polymers and 3D bioprinting for safer cardiovascular procedures.

The University of Akron's BETA Lab received a grant from the American Heart Association to help develop new, less invasive heart valve implants.

Abbott has taken a step forward in the development of a new addition to its structural heart portfolio, completing the first patient procedures with a yet-unnamed transcatheter aortic valve ...

Evidence for device fracturability under routine balloon inflation with modest pressures ...

Combining a biological heart and a silicone robotic pump, researchers created a biorobotic heart that beats like a real one, with a focus on a valve on the left side of the heart. The heart valve ...

BRISBANE, Australia & MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anteris Technologies Ltd (ASX: AVR), a structural heart company developing DurAVR™ THV, a new class of TAVI and the world’s only balloon-expandable, ...

Open-heart surgery has long been the primary approach for heart valve replacement. Today, however, breakthrough catheter-based technologies offer patients minimally invasive alternatives to ...

Mitral valve regurgitation is a common heart valve condition in which the mitral valve cannot close properly. Cardiologists may implant mitral valve clips to help the valve close effectively. Mitral ...