Bicuspid aortic valve surgery involves repairing or replacing a bicuspid valve. The procedure corrects a congenital condition in which a person has two cusps instead of three. A bicuspid aortic valve ...

The Ross procedure, which can be used to treat young people with severe aortic valve disease, has seen wide swings in popularity over the years, but now, with consistent data on long-term survival and ...

At 10 years, early surgery continues to have a mortality benefit when compared with conservative care for asymptomatic aortic ...

Transit Officer Paul DeGeorge thought his son was lying on him. Then he realized something much scarier was happening.

Early valve replacement surgery for very severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis was tied to lower long-term mortality risk ...

People who underwent a minimally invasive procedure to have their heart's aortic valve replaced had similar health outcomes years after treatment as people who had surgery, Cedars-Sinai investigators ...

At the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting, investigators presented a late-breaking study focused on surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) following prior transcatheter aortic ...

LOS ANGELES -- Survival outcomes favored mechanical valves for isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for people until age 60, after which a tissue valve may start to have an advantage, ...

Heleven Mezerene, an active person and busy nurse, was born with a heart valve defect that would one day need surgery. “I discovered this diagnosis when I was in my early thirties because I used to ...

The aortic valve sits between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta. It opens and closes with the heartbeat to allow blood to flow to the body without leaking back into the heart. It may need to be ...