A newborn's heart will grow roughly 15 times larger in volume by the time adulthood is reached — a remarkable transformation ...

As you get older, you may expect to feel a little slower. Climbing the stairs might leave you feeling winded. Yard work takes ...

Credit: Getty Images Clinicians must be vigilant for subtle signs of BAV in children. Once diagnosed, management decisions should be individualized. Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common ...

University of California, Irvine and Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health researchers have identified fundamental structural and functional differences between two major causes of mitral valve stenosis ...

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 ...

Serotonin can impact the mitral valve of the heart and potentially accelerate a cardiac condition known as degenerative mitral regurgitation, according to a new study. Serotonin can impact the mitral ...

Jan 19 (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had ...

The approval broadens Vetmedin’s label, which already covers management of mild to severe congestive heart failure in dogs with clinical myxomatous mitral valve disease or dilated cardiomyopathy.

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 ...

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 ...

Doctors at Kauvery Hospital, Chennai, successfully performed a complex heart valve procedure on a 78-year-old patient.

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 ...