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 ...

September 26, 2012 (Ottawa, Ontario) — Primary-care practitioners may be putting the lives of patients with prosthetic heart valves at risk by switching their anticoagulation from warfarin to newer ...

A team led by the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) and Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid has developed and clinically applied a minimally invasive technique that, ...

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from animal tissues that they currently most often receive, U.S ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation in patients with mechanical valve prostheses conferred similar risk ...

STANFORD, CA — New research suggests surgically implanted mechanical valves may offer better long-term survival than biologic prostheses, but much depends on the valve being replaced [1]. Receipt of a ...

New research coming out of UBC's Okanagan campus may take the current 'gold standard' for heart valves to a new level of reliability. A team of researchers at UBCO's Heart Valve Performance Lab (HVPL) ...

Patients at high risk for thromboembolism who undergo aortic valve replacement with a mechanical valve can safely take less than the standard dose of warfarin after 3 months, according to results of ...

In a laboratory near Interstate 35E and Minnesota 36, Abbott Laboratories employee Teresa Tollefson peers through a microscope, dips a Q-tip in Isopropyl alcohol and gently swabs a ring the size of a ...

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 ...

Odds of an uncomplicated pregnancy with a live birth were lower for mothers with mechanical valves versus biological valves. Risks from anticoagulation appeared highest with low-molecular-weight ...

New research may take the current 'gold standard' for heart valves to a new level of reliability. A team of researchers has developed a way to improve overall blood flow through the valves, so the ...