With many more potential years of life left compared with their older counterparts, patients younger than 65 present challenges when it comes to the management of severe aortic valve disease, a review ...

As you get older, you may expect to feel a little slower. Climbing the stairs might leave you feeling winded. Yard work takes ...

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

Take this news to heart. You could have a common condition that increases your risk of heart attack and stroke — and not even know it. More than a quarter of “healthy” adults over 60 have undiagnosed ...

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 ...

The median age in Great Falls is a little over 39 years old, and with a majority population being over the age of 21, heart ...

Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

Serotonin can impact the mitral valve of the heart and potentially accelerate a cardiac condition known as degenerative mitral regurgitation, according to a new study. Serotonin can impact the mitral ...

Heart valve disease is much more common in aging adults that has been thought, a new study warns. More than a quarter of healthy and symptom-free people aged 60 and older had previously undetected ...

A multisociety taskforce has created a method for standardizing how patient outcomes are reported for heart valve disease (HVD), regardless of which valve is being treated and how. The objectives, the ...