Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more of your heart valves don't work properly.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart’s main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new ...

Take this news to heart. You could have a common condition that increases your risk of heart attack and stroke — and not even know it. More than a quarter of “healthy” adults over 60 have undiagnosed ...

At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to help the ...

Many minimally invasive procedures are available to treat problems with your heart. These procedures can fix issues like malfunctioning valves and blockages in your heart’s arteries. Traditional heart ...

A leaky heart valve occurs when a heart valve doesn’t close properly, allowing blood to flow backward. During pregnancy, this condition can affect circulation and increase strain on your heart. A ...

The aortic valve sits between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta. It opens and closes with the heartbeat to allow blood to flow to the body without leaking back into the heart. It may need to be ...

MONTH AND TOMORROW IS HEART VALVE DISEASE AWARENESS DAY. SO RIGHT NOW I’M JOINED BY DOCTOR ARUN KUMAR REDDY WHO IS A CARDIOLOGIST AT UPMC. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME ...

Transcatheter heart valve repair and replacement have reshaped how structural heart disease is treated, and the market is ...

The sheer scale of undiagnosed heart valve disease in our ageing population has been revealed for the first time, thanks to new research led by the University of East Anglia. More than a quarter of ...