There is currently no way to stop calcification of the aortic valve. If all else fails, the valve must be replaced. To better understand the development of this common disease, researchers from Bochum ...

A true test of durability will take many more years, but if the valve holds up, it’s “potentially a game changer,” say ...

Media Release KMC Hospital, Dr B R Ambedkar Circle, Mangaluru recently performed a rare and complex heart surgery on a ...

Doctors were able to resuscitate him. Then, they got to work trying to figure out what was wrong. The man told them that for ...

SIMS Hospital Chennai performs India's first combined TAVR and FET graft surgery, marking a milestone in cardiac care.

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is now an established treatment option for elderly patients with severe ...

The centre also provides transcatheter aortic valve implantation – where a new aortic valve is delivered to the heart via a catheter – and the Mitraclip treatment, which also uses a clip to ...

Dr. Justin Dunn, who oversees the heart disease program, says patients can now receive the same level of care as UH Cleveland ...

Patients received a new treatment for heart valve disease, which did not require riskier open-heart surgery or travel to London. Five people from Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Peterborough and ...

To treat this condition, the patient required the replacement of both the aorta and the aortic valve with artificial grafts — a procedure known as Bentall surgery, which is considered highly ...

Bhopal: A bentall surgery, involving the replacement of both the aorta and aortic valve with artificial grafts was successfully conducted at AIIMS Bho.