Stepping back into competitive sports after heart surgery sounds understandable, but for these athletes, it’s just part of ...

Objective To evaluate the impact of heart valve clinics (HVCs) versus standard of care (SOC) on disease detection, timing of intervention and clinical outcomes in patients with valvular heart disease ...

Late-breaking results from clinical trials, debates about lifestyle choices and cardiovascular risk, and improving clinical care with generative AI are among the topics being presented by UC San ...

A heart valve transplant recipient has lent her voice to a call for more heart donations to heart valve banks. The NHS could not supply around one in five (20%) of heart valve requests from hospitals ...

Rheumatic heart disease is a chronic valvular disorder resulting from acute rheumatic fever, predominantly affecting the mitral valve and characterized by progressive fibrotic thickening. Although the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin physicians are trying new ways to treat chronic heart conditions. Five cardiologists at Heart Hospital of Austin are the first in the nation to administer a valve replacement ...

Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States Xenotransplantation of pig hearts may help address the current human shortage of human donors once ...

Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not afflicted by heart attacks—a condition that emerged primarily with modern ...

Porcine kidney connected to the normothermic perfusion machine. This device allows the kidney to be preserved alive and oxygenated ex vivo (outside the body).Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia ...