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 ...

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 ...

Heart valve disease happens when one or more of your heart’s four valves don’t work properly, preventing oxygen-rich blood from moving efficiently through your heart and to your body. This forces your ...

An 86-year-old woman from Iowa became the first person in Nebraska to undergo a new heart valve replacement procedure, ...

"As good as surgery is, patients just don't want it," he said. The aortic valve can stiffen and narrow with age, making the heart strain to push blood through it. Severe cases are treated with surgery ...

Mary Ann George had a question for Dr. George D'Angelo, shortly after the groundbreaking Erie heart surgeon replaced two of her heart valves in 1974. George was only 20 at the time, but her heart had ...

A man from McCook Lake is back on his feet after receiving a heart surgery that is not common to patients in South Dakota. He ...

But that changed when he was 50 and needed an urgent (and complicated) heart surgery. Parade talked to Dr. Benton about how ...

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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 ...

A man from McCook Lake is back on his feet after receiving a heart surgery that is not common to patients in South Dakota.