WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year of follow ...

R O C H E S T E R, N.Y., March 13 -- James Dauteuil probably never expected he would be wearing a piece of “leather” inside his heart. But Dauteuil, 76, is now one of three people in the Rochester ...

Owen Monroe was born with a deadly heart defect. Thanks to a cutting-edge surgery, now he’s starting preschool. By Simar Bajaj Owen Monroe was born blue. The arteries in his heart that transport blood ...

An AI algorithm could help to predict which patients might develop significant heart problems years in advance, just based on ECG readings. In a study, published today in The European Heart Journal, ...

Children who are born with heart valve defects often undergo surgery to receive frozen valves from cadavers. Because thawed cadaver tissue is dead and doesn’t grow, however, the child must ...

A congenital heart defect is a condition you’re born with. Types of heart defects vary in severity — with some, you’ll need surgery as a child, while others don’t need treatment until later in life or ...

“Structural heart disease” is an umbrella term that refers to conditions that affect different structures within the heart. Some of these problems can be present at birth, while others develop later ...

An AI algorithm could help to predict which patients might develop significant heart problems years in advance, just based on EKG readings. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...