MINNEAPOLIS — People with damaged mitral valves, which allow blood to flow backward in the heart, live longer and healthier lives if they get immediate surgery to repair a severe defect rather than ...

Heart murmurs can be present at birth or develop later in life. Some heart murmurs, called innocent hurt murmurs, are harmless. An innocent heart murmur is not a sign of heart disease and doesn’t need ...

(WHAS11) -- Gone are the days when patients had to endure major heart surgery to replace or repair a heart valve. This medical break though is getting patients back on their feet within weeks. Gloria ...

Milly Lee, 37, didn't take her primary care doctor's advice. The Round Rock mom was busy raising a toddler when at her annual checkup in 2021, her primary care doctor told her she needed to see a ...

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 ...

Lubb-dupp. Lubb-dupp. Those are the words that health care professionals often use to mimic the sound of your heartbeat. That steady, regular sound is made by your heart valves opening and closing as ...

Tyler Clary, who captured Olympic gold in the men’s 200 backstroke at the 2012 Olympics in London, announced Thursday that he will undergo open heart surgery to correct a heart murmur, a congenital ...

You can develop shortness of breath if you have heart valve problems. This is because your heart valves help move blood through the four chambers of your heart and throughout your body. Your heart ...

This year, U.S. News & World Report ranked Sanford Medical Center Bismarck, 44th out of 800 in its top hospitals list for ...

There may be a genetic link between people who experience heart murmurs. These heart murmurs may be harmless or related to underlying heart disease, which can be inherited from family. Share on ...

Heart murmurs are vibrations caused by abnormal blood flow, graded on a scale of one to six. Causes range from congenital defects and anemia to dental disease, inflammation, cardiomyopathy, and ...

Heart murmurs are sounds, such as whooshing or swishing, made by rapid, choppy blood flow through the heart. The sounds can be heard with a device called a stethoscope and are different from those of ...