Heart valve clips can repair certain leaking valves without open-heart surgery by bringing valve leaflets together, reducing ...

Current replacement heart valves come with significant limitations. Mechanical valves typically require patients to take blood-thinning medications for life, while bioprosthetic valves, often made ...

The FDA has approved a surgically implanted pulmonary heart valve for pediatric patients with congenital pulmonary valve disease.  | The FDA has approved a surgically implanted pulmonary heart valve ...

For children born with a heart defect, every growth spurt has often meant another trip to the operating room.

"For children born with congenital heart disease, valve replacement timing has always been a difficult decision — wait too ...

FDA-approved AUTUS heart valve expands inside a child's body as they grow, potentially reducing repeat open-heart surgeries for pulmonary valve disease.

High-fidelity three-dimensional simulations of patient-specific mitral valves show that calcific mitral stenosis imposes a ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich and the South African company Strait Access Technologies are using 3-D printing to produce custom-made artificial heart valves from silicone. This could help meet an aging ...

Imperial bioengineers have discovered a new mechanism driving the growth of heart valves in zebrafish embryos. The findings, from a paper from National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm ...

Some of the best engineers and inventors are copycats. They look at how the natural world solves complex problems and use ...

Latifi’s lab, which is a joint program between USF Health and the College of Engineering, is developing tissue-engineered heart valves that combine advanced biomaterials with a patient’s own cells.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Edwards Lifesciences Autus surgical pulmonary valve that is the ...