An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor heart valve. Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade with ...

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s valve center. As a part of FOX 12’s ...

OPB has premiered a new documentary that traces the development of the world’s first successful artificial mitral heart valve by a young, Oregon-based cardiac surgeon and a retired engineer. Their ...

The world’s first successful heart valve replacement surgery was performed in 1960 at what’s now Oregon Health & Science University. Behind this life-saving innovation was an unlikely partnership ...

An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living valve from a donor heart. The procedure, ...

Dr. Albert Starr, the Oregon surgeon who co-invented the first successful artificial heart valve, died Dec. 11 at 98. His work marked a turning point in cardiovascular medicine, with the development ...

When Helga Abela of Redford was 60 years old, a faulty aortic valve made it difficult for her to catch her breath and just get through daily life. She was living in Traverse City at the time and her ...

The cardiac surgery team at Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has become the first in the world to replace an artificial heart valve with a live tissue valve through a partial heart ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — OHSU is mourning the loss of a legend in cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Albert Starr, who was best known as a cardiovascular surgeon who co-invented and implanted the world’s ...

CarlJohn Petry (1938-2000) lived with this artificial aortic valve inside his heart for thirty-one years (1964-1995). The Starr-Edwards artificial heart valve replaced Petry’s damaged natural valve.