Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves (MHV)—and the one designed in their own lab appears to outperform the others.

The global market for prosthetic heart valve is forecasted to attain USD 15,294.6 million by 2025, expanding at 7.5% CAGR to reach USD 31,522.6 million by 2035. In 2024, the revenue of prosthetic ...

OVERLAND PARK, Ks. (KCTV) -An Overland Park man is officially back home after an emotional trip to California. Daryll Johnson traveled more 1,500 miles to meet the team that hand-sewed his heart valve ...

“He came from a very poor family and back in 2006, he wanted to go to Fiji to give free heart operations – particularly rheumatic heart valve replacement ... me a mechanical aortic heart ...

Replacement procedures include: Open-heart surgery to remove a damaged valve and replace it with either a mechanical valve or a valve made of cow, pig, or human heart tissue Transcatheter aortic ...

Methods and Results—We retrospectively identified 133 patients (62 men, 71 women) aged 80 to 91 years (mean 84±3 years) who underwent aortic valve replacement alone or ... The mean New York Heart ...

In some cases, your doctor may just want to closely watch the heart valve problem for a period. However, other options ... Replacement valves may be either tissue (biologic) valves, which include ...

Background Periprocedural ischemic stroke remains a serious complication in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). We used a novel robotic transcranial Doppler (TCD) system ...

To compare outcomes after aortic valve replacement (AVR) according to valve type specifically in older patients since valve-related risks are age-dependent; two randomised trials comparing mechanical ...