A newborn's heart will grow roughly 15 times larger in volume by the time adulthood is reached — a remarkable transformation ...

University of California, Irvine and Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health researchers have identified fundamental structural and functional differences between two major causes of mitral valve stenosis ...

Background Aortic valve calcification (AVC) is a disease process driven by inflammation and lipid infiltration, serving as a ...

Doctors at Oklahoma Heart Institute are now offering a newly FDA-approved heart valve replacement that requires no open-heart ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) has reported new data supporting its Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system.

Catheter-based procedures are preferred over traditional surgery. The global interventional cardiology devices market is ...

The House has passed a bill to end the partial government shutdown in a final vote Tuesday afternoon, cleared by a bipartisan ...

You may have seen it Friday, when the American Heart Association and Go Red for Women rang the opening bell on Wall Street, officially ushering in February ...

With sports romances heating up pop culture with new shows like Heated Rivalry, we can’t help but remember some of the ones that paved the way, including 1978’s Ice Castles. The film told the ...

TEER, most patients with severely leaking mitral valves and who were not candidates for open heart surgery had to be referred ...

Five hundred people in a small Canadian province were diagnosed with a mystery brain disease. What would it mean for the patients if the disease was never real? In early 2019, officials at a hospital ...

Help us make Medscape the best clinical resource possible. Please use this form to submit your questions or comments on how to make this resource center more useful to clinicians.