Pulmonic valve regurgitation occurs when blood leaks abnormally backward from the pulmonary artery through the pulmonic valve into the right ventricle. This can result in right heart failure. Pulmonic ...

Hello and greetings from Bronx, New York. This is Ronald Wharton. I am a cardiologist at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I thought I'd share with you something ...

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 ...

There are four valves in the heart. Valves are tissue structures that open and close to let blood in and out of the heart and direct blood flow in the heart. When you have a disease of a valve, it ...

What Happens During Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery? Minimally invasive heart valve surgery is a type of surgery performed through smaller incisions. This type of surgery reduces blood loss, ...

What is a Prosthetic Heart Valve? A prosthetic heart valve is an artificial device surgically implanted into the heart to replace a heart valve that has become damaged. The human heart has four valves ...

Ronald H. Wharton, MD: Greetings. This is Ronald Wharton. I am a cardiologist at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, and assistant professor of medicine at the Albert Einstein College of ...

Midsystolic murmurs — also known as systolic ejection murmurs, or SEM — include the murmurs of aortic stenosis, pulmonic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and atrial septal defects. A ...

Aortic stenosis is a common heart disease that results in a fixed obstruction of the left ventricle and presents with angina, syncope, congestive heart failure or sudden death. About 3% of the general ...

S1 is the first heart sound that doctors can hear using a stethoscope. The vibrations that occur when the mitral and tricuspid valves in the heart close produce the S1 sound. There are two common ...

The Terminator star revealed Friday he received a new aortic valve Arnold Schwarzenegger is recovering after undergoing a heart procedure in Cleveland, Ohio. The actor and former California governor ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed last week that he received a new aortic valve Arnold Schwarzenegger was getting back to his daily routine, one week after revealing he had heart surgery to receive a new ...