Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to those with a biological valve, new research has found.

Every year, more than 5 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with heart valve disease, but this condition has no ...

They also showed that mitral-valve replacement was possible with a ... based in Anaheim, California, to manufacture artificial heart valves for human use—the first such company in the world.

Medically reviewed by Richard N. Fogoros, MD Once you have made the decision to have heart valve replacement surgery, you, ...

"As an aside, the Ross procedure, which is my preference in this age group, is the only aortic valve replacement procedure that results in a late survival curve equivalent to an a ...

Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.

The researchers reviewed data on nearly 110,000 patients who underwent surgical replacement of aortic valves between the ages ...

The Heart Valve Devices Market is driven by advancements in aortic, mitral, tricuspid, and pulmonary valve technologies. It ...

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive ...

“The invention of the artificial heart valve increased the quality ... The first patient to undergo a mitral valve replacement in August 1960 was a 40-year-old woman with end-stage rheumatic ...

Investors remain bullish on medical device makers, expecting them to benefit from still-high demand for surgical procedures, ...