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Journi Kelly, 11, needed a new heart. But her heart valves helped 2 other girls and allowed doctors to perform the 1st living ...

Mitral valve replacement in children traditionally uses non-living tissue or mechanical valves, neither of which grow as a ...

Doctors at Duke Children's Hospital were able to perform three life-saving surgeries after one donor heart became available.

A study led by the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, has found that mechanical heart valves provide better long-term survival than biological heart valves in patients aged 50-70 years.

As part of National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day area cardiologists want everyone to know the importance of this condition which occurs when the valves in the heart stop working properly and ...

The new device created by researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory hopes to change the treatment of heart valve disease forever.

In a medical breakthrough, Duke Health in Durham used parts of a donated heart from one girl to help save two others. Now, ...

A specialized surgery at Duke Hospital saved the lives of three girls who now share an unbreakable bond. A specialized surgery at Duke Hospital saved the lives of three girls who now share an ...

An experimental drug, ataciguat, initially created by Sanofi and further developed by the Mayo Clinic, has significantly ...

After an adolescent girl received a full heart transplant and donated the healthy valves from her original heart, the valves ...