At two years of follow-up, patients with a poorly functioning tricuspid valve in the heart who received the best available ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced late-breaking data from its TRILUMINATE™ Pivotal trial that show the TriClip™ transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) system to treat tricuspid regurgitation (TR), ...

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a valve designed to treat aortic regurgitation had ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced data demonstrating substantial, sustained improvements with its TriClip system.

Cardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland, Wash., company with a technology to treat heart valve malfunction, has raised $53 million ...

Aortic stenosis is a condition where the aortic valve narrows, obstructing blood flow from the heart to the aorta. As a ...

There are four valves in the heart and each one has strong flaps called “leaflets” that control blood flow. Leaflets open to let blood move through the heart and out to the rest of the body. They then ...

What Happens During Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery? Minimally invasive heart valve surgery is a type of surgery performed through smaller incisions. This type of surgery reduces blood loss ...

It's now possible to manage a severe leaky right heart valve, or what is medically termed as tricuspid regurgitation, without having open heart surgery. This non-invasive treatment utilises a ...

As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females. A study led by bioengineers at the University of ...