SURGEONS at Auckland’s Greenlane Hospital have performed eight double-valve transplants using human heart valves, a spokesman for the hospital’s surgical team said today, commenting on a report that ...

Demisha Jennings, 32, visited the dentist to get a tooth pulled several years ago in Indiana but on returning home, she found ...

A study reveals that middle-aged adults fare better with mechanical aortic valves compared to animal tissue-based valves. The research, presented at the Society for Thoracic Surgery annual meeting, ...

Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive, U.S. researchers ...

Results from rhesus macaques provide solid ground for a first-in-human investigation of heart repair with stem cell-derived ...

A patch made from lab-grown muscle cells boosted heart function in monkeys with cardiovascular disease and is now being ...

In "remarkable" work, a patch of engineered heart muscle cells was used to strengthen a patient's heart before transplant.

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of ...

Previous attempts to use cell therapies have failed - but early results using a new type of muscle patch look promising ...