Cardiovascular disease remains a leading global cause of death, and we break down its pathology, risk factors, and the ...

Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

Routine echocardiography in cancer centers can spot severe valve disease earlier and trigger timely treatment decisions.

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 ...

A multisociety taskforce has created a method for standardizing how patient outcomes are reported for heart valve disease (HVD), regardless of which valve is being treated and how. The objectives, the ...

Aortic valve stenosis (AVS) can result from heart abnormalities that may be hereditary, but it commonly develops in older adults due to scarring and calcium buildup in the valve cusps. The valve cusps ...

At the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), being held this weekend in Madrid, new cardiac care guidelines call for a more uniform, simplified and accessible approach to ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new device from Abbott meant to treat tricuspid heart valve disease — an expected decision after an outside advisory panel voted that the device’s benefits ...

Boston, MA - Almost 5 years after taking a 3-month course of the antiobesity drug fenfluramine as part of a smoking cessation study, participants showed no echocardiographic evidence of increased ...