Your heart's four valves keep blood moving in the right direction, but a poorly working valve causes abnormal blood flow in your heart. With valvular heart disease, the heart works too hard ...
Heart valve surgery is a procedure to treat heart valve disease, which happens when at least one of the four heart valves is not working properly. However, many aspects of heart valve surgery may ...
2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...