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.

A heart surgeon who performed a revolutionary aortic valve replacement therapy on patients with heart valve failure undergoes the procedure ... “Like everyone, I thought, ‘Well, you’re ...

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 ...