Innoventric's Trillium, now in clinical trials, is implanted in a 10-minute procedure under sedation to treat a leak in the ...

Heart valves are thin membranes located within the chambers of the heart. They have leaflets or cusps which allow blood to flow in only one direction through the heart. There are four main valves ...

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 ...

As your heart beats ... The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of tissue called cusps that open and close to keep blood flowing in only one direction . Sometimes, the aortic ...

A Charleston woman was always short of breath and suffered from an undertreated heart problem. A new device at MUSC has her ...

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 ... creating a one-piece structure that ...

Open-heart surgery is the traditional way of replacing a heart ... less painful and shorter recovery. Heart valve replacement ...

The blood in the veins of the legs works against gravity in order to return upwards to the heart. The blood is moved up towards the heart by one-way valves in the veins. When the leg muscles contract ...

One of the longstanding challenges of pediatric pulmonary valve replacement is size and the ability to accommodate growth. Young children tend to quickly outgrow fixed size valves-leading to ...