Each type of heart disease has its own symptoms ... your blood flow could be blocked or blood can leak. The causes of heart valve problems include infections such as rheumatic fever, congenital ...

A large new population study of men over 45 indicates insulin resistance may be an important risk factor for the development of the world's most common heart valve disease -- aortic stenosis (AS).

Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully ... possible to induce specific tissue/organ cell types and seed them on decellularized animal (such ...