Your aortic valve is part of your heart, a strong muscle that pumps blood through your body. The aortic valve controls the blood flowing out from the heart. It opens every time your heart contracts, ...

In a healthy heart, blood flows in only one direction. The four valves of the heart prevent blood from flowing backward. But a leaky heart valve, or heart valve regurgitation, causes a backflow of ...

Valvular heart disease, also called heart valve disease, occurs when you have a diseased or damaged heart valve. When your heart pumps blood, your valves open and close to keep blood flowing in the ...

If you have aortic stenosis and a doctor deems your condition severe, you likely will need to have your valve replaced. You may be offered a transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, or a ...

For decades, Linda Lopes, 77, lived an energetic lifestyle, having spent 40 years of her life working on her family’s dairy farm. “I was pretty active, doing things like mowing my own lawn and ...

If your fatigue is unexplained and shows up even after simple routine activities, it could be more than just stress, poor ...

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