A leaky heart valve is not your father's fault. Your father probably was trying to protect his heart with aspirin, based on information that this inexpensive drug can prevent repeat heart attacks.

Dr. Nish Patel, a cardiologist with Baptist Health Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, said a recent clinical trial focused on fixing a leaking tricuspid valve with a small clipping device.

Cardiologists had assumed that if they fixed problems on the left side of the heart — like a leaky mitral or aortic valve — the tricuspid valve would fix itself. Their assumption was wrong.

Leakage is why heart valve insufficiency is so dangerous. The aortic valve sits between the left ventricle of the heart and the aorta. If the valve doesn’t close well, instead of blood flowing from ...

Valve repair or replacement is the most effective way to treat heart valve problems. When your heart valves don’t function properly, blood can’t move from your heart to your lungs or out to ...

Heart valve disease and heart valve surgery....Valvular insufficiency or leakage happens more often in the mitral valve than in other heart valves. When a valve leaks, the leaflets don’t close ...

Repair of tricuspid valve leak during mitral valve surgery may benefit some adults American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2021, Presentation LBS.01 Reports and Proceedings American Heart ...

Mitral valve prolapse is one of the most common causes of mitral valve leaks. Prolapse occurs when the leaflets “balloon” up as they close, which causes them to overlap or one to overshoot the other.

One cause of severe heart failure that currently has a poor prognosis is a leaky valve, particularly the leakage of the mitral valve, which control’s blood flow in the left part of the heart.

A leaky heart valve is not your father's fault. Your father probably was trying to protect his heart with aspirin, based on information that this inexpensive drug can prevent repeat heart attacks.

A new study being published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that people with a certain amount of leakage from faulty mitral valves in the heart may need surgery, even when they don't ...

CHI Memorial Offers "Breakthrough Technology That Corrects Heart Valve Leakage" Monday, July 24, 2017 Samuel Ledford, M.D., cardiologist at The Chattanooga Heart Institute ...