According to the European Society of Cardiology, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in Europe. Each year, 3.9 million people die here from heart disease, which is responsible for 45 % of all deaths on ...
Jun 28, 2018
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Aortic stenosis is one of the most common heart valve defects. Its prevalence increases with age and it often requires treatment. As well as conventional valve replacement involving open-heart surgery, a less invasive procedure ...
Nov 24, 2020
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UC Health cardiac surgeons have successfully performed the United States' first-ever endoscopic "triple valve" surgery at UC Medical Center.
Aug 19, 2021
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The incidence of infective endocarditis among dental patients in Olmsted County, Minn. did not increase after new guidelines called for giving preventive antibiotics before dental procedures only to those at greatest risk ...
Jun 11, 2012
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A foundry worker in the Navy for more than two decades, Velvin Bill of La Mesa often cast metal parts for broken ship pumps, allowing vessels to stay underway many decades after they were built.
Mar 2, 2022
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(Medical Xpress) -- The first trial of a treatment allowing doctors to insert a fully repositionable replacement heart valve without the need for open-heart surgery has been successfully conducted at a Melbourne hospital.
Jun 19, 2012
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(HealthDay)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that use of the CoreValve "valve-in-valve" aortic replacement has been expanded to include people at extreme risk for serious complications of traditional ...
Mar 31, 2015
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Surgeons in the Heart Center at Boston Children's Hospital have partnered with Edwards Lifesciences to launch a clinical study of a new prosthetic heart valve for patients born with a congenital heart defect. Called the COMMENCE ...
Mar 16, 2016
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Compared with patients who had a typical tricuspid aortic valve, patients with a more unusual bicuspid aortic valve had a similar rate of death but a higher likelihood of stroke after undergoing a procedure to replace the ...
Mar 18, 2019
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There could soon be new hope for those facing one of humanity's biggest health issues, thanks to research from the College of Engineering.
Jan 8, 2015
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