It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it ...

Mary Ann George had a question for Dr. George D'Angelo, shortly after the groundbreaking Erie heart surgeon replaced two of her heart valves in 1974. George was only 20 at the time, but her heart had ...

NEW ORLEANS — Cardiologists are reporting a major advance: A long-awaited study suggests that many people with a bad aortic valve, the heart’s main gate, can avoid open-heart surgery and have a new ...

January 8, 2026 – National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the following: ...

By becoming the first health system in the region to offer robotic mitral valve surgery, this minimally invasive approach offers many benefits for patients. In this segment, cardiothoracic ...

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 ...

A common cause of heart failure in elderly people is a defective heart valve, but open-heart surgery to correct the problem may be too risky for some patients. A new clinical trial at Duke University ...

After heart valve surgery, focus on a nutrient-dense, high fiber diet rich in whole grains, fruits, nuts, and heart-healthy proteins and fats. Heart valve replacement surgery involves replacing a ...

Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

ELKHART, Ind. (WSBT) — Al Cover is walking and exercising again the way he was a few years ago. “I'm back to where I was before, doing hills. And in my work, my partners recognize the increase in my ...

People with severely leaky heart valves that cause no symptoms — a situation thought to be relatively harmless — actually are in danger of dying and should consider surgery to get the problem fixed ...

The aortic valve can stiffen and narrow with age, making the heart strain to push blood through it. Severe cases are treated with surgery to replace the valve, but that's risky for many older people ...