UVM Medical Center is the only Vermont hospital offering Tricuspid Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER) This new heart ...

With growth in percutaneous fixes for the valve, surgeons at STS 2025 called for innovation, team-based care, and more data.

A new study has identified an enzyme that plays an important role in breaking down unneeded or damaged proteins in the heart – an important process for maintaining heart health.

At the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) annual meeting, it was standing room only at a session dedicated to why the tricuspid valve should no longer be considered the "forgotten ...

Bradycardia refers to a resting heart rate that is slower than usual. A heart rate of fewer than 60 beats per minute (bpm) may indicate an underlying health issue, but this is not always the case.

The four heart valves (tricuspid, pulmonary, mitral and aortic) open and close at just the right moment to keep the blood moving in the proper direction through the heart. It is helpful to visualize ...

In addition to regular exercise and not smoking, diet is one of the best ways to protect your heart. That’s because inflammation, blood pressure, cholesterol, and other heart disease risk ...

or tricuspid valve). Patients with a history of prior heart transplantation were excluded from the analysis. The total of individuals with and without native VHD (ie, all patients receiving a ...

It added that this current project led by Heart Biotech at Harefield Hospital has successfully encouraged nerve cell growth into the valve, contrary to previous attempts. Human trials involving 50-100 ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...