University of Iowa Health Care recently debuted a new, minimally invasive heart valve procedure after years of research and months of work toward approval by the Federal Drug Administration. A second ...

Aortic valve replacement typically requires about 8 weeks for initial recovery, though heavy lifting may be off-limits for up to 12 weeks. Minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement ...

Your mitral valve is one of the four major valves in your heart. It helps blood flow through your heart and out to the rest of your body. When this valve isn’t working correctly, it puts stress on ...

PARIS, France—Treating a failed bioprosthesis via transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)—the so-called valve-in-valve approach—is feasible and often effective but technically demanding, ...

When parts of the heart, such as the valves, do not work properly, it is possible to repair or replace them. The aortic and mitral valves are the ones that surgeons most commonly replace. Most valve ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Medtronic, Inc. today announced it has received Conformité Européenne (CE) Mark for valve-in-valve (VIV) procedures using the CoreValve® and CoreValve® Evolut(TM) transcatheter aortic ...

During heart valve replacement surgery, a surgeon replaces damaged or diseased valves in the heart. They can replace it with a mechanical valve or biological valve from a pig or cow. A person with ...