PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Heart valves play an important role in the circulation of blood throughout the body. They open and close to control or regulate the blood flowing into and out of the heart.

Your heart has four valves that open and close with each heartbeat to control the flow of blood. Heart valve diseases are conditions that affect one or more heart valves. Each heart valve condition ...

Valvular heart disease, also called heart valve disease, occurs when you have a diseased or damaged heart valve. When your heart pumps blood, your valves open and close to keep blood flowing in 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 ...

More than a quarter of healthy and symptom-free people aged 60 and older had previously undetected heart valve disease, researchers report. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Heart valve disease is ...

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 ...

Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW) announced today that it provided the founding sponsorship for a new AHA Heart Valve ...

MONTH AND TOMORROW IS HEART VALVE DISEASE AWARENESS DAY. SO RIGHT NOW I’M JOINED BY DOCTOR ARUN KUMAR REDDY WHO IS A CARDIOLOGIST AT UPMC. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME ...

Philips has rolled out an AI-driven tool, DeviceGuide, intended to support clinicians during intricate cardiac interventions, ...

This comes after a dip in the number of hearts donated to heart valve banks, with 600 hearts donated in 2021 and just 368 ...

Heart valve disease is much more common in aging adults that has been thought, a new study warns. More than a quarter of healthy and symptom-free people aged 60 and older had previously undetected ...