At the University of Minnesota, researchers keep hearts alive outside the body for hours. Medtronic uses them to develop ...

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a ...

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 ...

These latest data reinforce years of smaller studies, but whether they should change practice is a matter of debate.

Explore the hidden dynamics of heart disease, its risks, and how new strategies and innovations help improve heart health ...

A Swedish study of nearly 9,000 individuals explores the connection between gut bacteria and heart health, revealing that ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease, ...

These risks are higher if you have CAD or an implanted heart device, such as an artificial heart valve or a coronary stent. And if you have an arrhythmia, a blood clot in your heart can lead to a ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease, ...

Renowned heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub has unveiled a groundbreaking advancement in cardiac care: a "living valve" that grows naturally within a patient's body. Sir Magdi Yacoub, refle ...

Recently published in Heart, a BMJ Journal ... on 272 bicuspid aortic valve patients with early onset valve or aortic disease and 272 biological relatives. They analyzed all copy number variations ...