This new AI heart disease detector can’t be beat. S (SHD) refers to defects in the heart’s valves, wall or chambers that are present at birth or develop ...

This leaves the youngest patients vulnerable to heart damage or even failure. It’s like a race against time, hoping they grow enough for treatments before something really bad happens.

Rheumatic heart disease, linked to rare rheumatic fever, leads to high-risk, complex operation—one that many heart surgeons ...

Heart valve disease can cause regurgitation, in which a valve does not close completely, and blood can leak backward in the direction it came from. Heart valves also need to open properly.

An AI algorithm could help to predict which patients might develop significant heart problems years in advance, just based on ECG readings.

Doctors don't like to do the surgery because the right side of the heart, where the valve sits, is more sensitive to damage from surgery and it comes with a greater risk of complications afterward.

Children who are born with heart valve defects often undergo surgery to receive frozen valves from cadavers. Because thawed cadaver tissue is dead and doesn’t grow, however, the child must ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor heart valve. Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade ...