There is currently no way to stop calcification of the aortic valve. If all else fails, the valve must be replaced. To better ...

Artificial heart valve that GROWS inside the body 'could stop children with deadly defects needing multiple risky surgeries' The prosthetic has been hailed as a huge step forward in medical care ...

Mitral valve disease can prevent blood from flowing properly out of your heart to the rest of the body. ... pig, or human cadaver. The takeaway.

Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully transplant a pig heart valve into a rodent, led by the research of a Northeastern University professor.

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 ...

The human body has sophisticated defenses against the deposition of calcium minerals that stiffen heart tissues, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at ...

Replacement heart valves that grow inside the body are a step closer to reality following studies led by researchers at Imperial. The results are published in Communications Biology.