Sound familiar? If you listen to your heart beat, you'll hear two sounds. These "lub" and "DUB" sounds are made by the heart valves as they open and close. See the valves in action.

Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns ...

The goal of heart valve surgery is to repair or replace a malfunctioning heart valve to prevent the development of life-threatening conditions. Valves are one-way gates in the heart that keep blood ...

For conditions such as truncus arteriosus and severe aortic stenosis without good function, infants not only need new heart valves and arteries to survive, but the new tissue also needs to grow ...

Now, Georgia Tech researchers have created a 3D-printed heart valve made of bioresorbable materials and designed to fit an individual patient's unique anatomy. Once implanted, the valves will be ...

But 3D printing isn’t the only way to build polymer structures, as [Riley] shows us with this fascinating attempt to create electrospun heart valves. Now, you may never have heard of ...

"The tricuspid valve is one of the four heart valves, located on the right side of the heart," Dr. Wang explained. "When it doesn't work well, the valve doesn't close properly, causing blood to ...

Protecting your heart starts with understanding how it works. Heart valve diseases are conditions that can disrupt the flow ...