Your heart has four valves, which keep your blood flowing in the right direction. If one doesn’t work correctly, it can put you at higher risk for stroke or congestive heart failure. More than 182,000 ...

There are four valves in the heart and each one has strong flaps called “leaflets” that control blood flow. Leaflets open to let blood move through the heart and out to the rest of the body. They then ...

Aortic regurgitation, on the other hand, is leakiness of the aortic valve when it's closed. It causes blood to leak back from the aorta into the heart's left ventricle. Mitral Valve Disease The ...

Unfortunately, the leaky valve during that time can result in devastating right ventricular heart dysfunction or dilation.” Agwu and his mentor Professor Arash Kheradvar have developed a new ...

A Tulsa teenager is making history after his successful surgery to reconstruct his heart valve with his own tissue.

Bicuspid aortic valve disease, where the aortic valve has two leaflets instead of the normal three, is the most common congenital heart defect, affecting up to 2% of the population. The condition ...

A heart valve surgery technique is being pioneered in West Yorkshire. Patients who have leaky valves that are too wide, allowing blood to flow back to the heart, can now have a replacement one fitted.

He's able to have a normal life after historic open heart surgery last June at Oklahoma Children's Hospital in Oklahoma City. Dr. Harold Burkhart says Kayne had a narrow leaky valve. Instead of ...