Researchers from Atlanta-based Georgia Tech have developed a 3D-printed, bioresorbable heart valve that promotes tissue regeneration within the heart. The achievement marks the first time ...

Loma Linda University Children's Hospital recently made history performing the first pediatric partial heart transplant in ...

They will remove the defective valve and replace it with either a tissue valve or a mechanical valve, as was previously mentioned. During most open-heart surgeries, including valve surgery, it is ...

Heart valve disease has no effective long-term treatment, and people who suffer from it have to endure repeated, invasive surgeries throughout their lives to survive. Researchers at Georgia Tech ...

Very strong. A biological heart valve is a heart valve recovered from a donor or created from donor tissue. A cadaveric valve comes from a human donor. Bovine valves are recovered from cows and ...

Partial heart transplants provide a range of lifesaving options for children with complex congenital heart conditions, and can lead to a domino effect of life-saving procedures.

The pulse of the competition also quickened recently when both received federal approval to sell a heart valve made entirely from soft pig tissue. An improvement over earlier tissue heart valves with ...

The Duke team performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, a type of partial heart transplant, which Duke ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.