A team from the CNIC and Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid has developed a minimally invasive, catheter-based procedure to treat defective mechanical aortic valves ...

Decline in mechanical valve use: Despite superior outcomes in younger populations, mechanical valve use decreased from 20% to ...

One of the last images returned from Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander was this view showing the crescent Earth as the spacecraft neared reentry. Credit: Astrobotic WASHINGTON — Astrobotic’s Peregrine ...

A late-breaking study presented today at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival ...

According to the American Heart Association, valvular heart disease affects about 2.5% of adults in the United States, and more than 100,000 patients undergo valve replacement surgery each year.

No one was more surprised than Dr. Rick Dearman when he was diagnosed with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, also known as heart valve failure. As a heart surgeon, he’d treated hundreds of people ...

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive, U.S ...

Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves (MHV)—and the one designed in their own lab appears to outperform the others.

September 26, 2012 (Ottawa, Ontario) — Primary-care practitioners may be putting the lives of patients with prosthetic heart valves at risk by switching their anticoagulation from warfarin to newer ...