The results of a new clinical trial have overturned the “wait and see” approach that cardiologists have long favored for symptom-free patients. By Benjamin Mueller For decades, people with failing ...

It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it ...

UC San Francisco interventional cardiologists and interventional echocardiographers recently performed the health system’s first commercial transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement procedure using ...

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 ...

Doctors at Children's National Hospital performed Preston's surgery. An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor ...