Pulmonary valve stenosis can be both congenital (present at birth) or something adults develop later on in life. It can range in severity from mild to severe cases. Often, a person may not know they ...

Pulmonic regurgitation is when blood leaks back into the heart from the pulmonary artery due to weakness in the pulmonary valve. It happens when a pulmonary valve does not close properly. The ...

A transcatheter pulmonary valve can be successfully and safely implanted within a failed bioprosthetic pulmonary valve, yielding good short-term hemodynamic results. The findings, from the largest ...

What is the Condition of Pulmonary Atresia? Pulmonary atresia is a congenital heart defect where the baby is born with a defective or absent pulmonary valve. The valve should have three leaflets which ...

The findings come on the heels of the US Food and Drug Administration approving the Harmony system (Medtronic) in March as the first nonsurgical heart valve to treat pulmonary valve regurgitation in ...

Researchers have found a way to take a pediatric patient’s skin cells, reprogram the skin cells to function as heart valvular cells, and then use the cells as part of a tissue-engineered pulmonary ...

EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands & ZURICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xeltis, a clinical-stage company with the most advanced polymer-based restorative cardiovascular devices, today announced that it has started the ...

Thus, the pattern of the resolution of pulmonary vascular disease after mitral-valve surgery is not clear. Furthermore, the influence of cardiopulmonary bypass and the characteristics of the ...

The pulmonary valve is located between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery. The valve acts as a doorway that lets blood into and out of the heart. Pulmonary valve stenosis is when the ...