Lander, MDKey TakeawaysArtificial heart valves are strong and last longer but require lifelong use of blood ...

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

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 ...

The cardiac surgery team at Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has become the first in the world to replace an artificial heart valve with a live tissue valve through a partial heart ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s valve center. As a part of FOX 12’s ...

Researchers have developed a promising synthetic heart valve that may eventually be used for growing children. Harvard’s Wass Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to those with a biological valve, new research led by the University of Bristol ...

Historic partial heart transplant replaces pre-teen’s artificial valve with a living one Provided by GlobeNewswire May 12, 2025, 7:00:00 AM ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — OHSU is mourning the loss of a legend in cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Albert Starr, who was best known as a cardiovascular surgeon who co-invented and implanted the world’s ...

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Mechanical heart valves are vital in restoring cardiac function in patients with valvular disease, and their performance is intimately linked to fluid dynamic phenomena. In these devices, complex flow ...