An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor heart valve. Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade with ...

Abbott's heart valve was approved by the FDA this year. For her family, 3-year-old Sadie Rutenberg is living proof that medical miracles are real. For the first year of her life, the Seattle baby was ...

The HALO Trial represents a new opportunity for surgeons seeking a valve replacement for pediatric patients with no alternative approved treatment options ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--St. Jude ...

OPB has premiered a new documentary that traces the development of the world’s first successful artificial mitral heart valve by a young, Oregon-based cardiac surgeon and a retired engineer. Their ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My father is having issues with his aortic valve. He is 53 years old and was told he needs to have a valve replacement. I was reading that there are different types of valves. Can ...

This holiday season, Abbott is sure to warm hearts in a Hallmark Channel film that puts the company’s medical devices and its ...

UBCO’s Dr. Hadi Mohammadi holds his latest innovation—a manufactured heart valve that has just been put through its paces—comparing its viability to other valves currenty available to patients. Sort ...

The prosthetic heart valves / Artificial Heart Valve market is projected to reach USD 8.86 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 12.9% from 2017 to 2022. Tran catheter Heart Valves to Register the Highest ...

When you think about additive manufacturing, thoughts naturally turn to that hot-glue squirting CNC machine sitting on your bench and squeezing whatever plastic doodad you need. But 3D printing isn’t ...

New research may take the current 'gold standard' for heart valves to a new level of reliability. A team of researchers has developed a way to improve overall blood flow through the valves, so the ...

CarlJohn Petry (1938-2000) lived with this artificial aortic valve inside his heart for thirty-one years (1964-1995). The Starr-Edwards artificial heart valve replaced Petry’s damaged natural valve.