As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

Editor: While more than 11 million Americans are living with heart valve disease at this very moment, leading to 25,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, an estimated 3 in ...

Every year, more than 5 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with heart valve disease, but this condition has no ...

British cardiac patients will soon be fitted with heart valves that grow naturally within the body, marking a significant advance in treating heart disease. An initial group of over 50 patients is ...

2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...

DURING the course of investigations of the effect of age on acid mucopolysaccharide content of the human heart valves, we found hyaluronic acid to be a major component. In all it represented about ...