The heart is the most important organ in our body. It continues to work until the end of life and pumps blood to every part ...

He was in the late stages of rheumatic heart disease, which kills about 400,000 people a year worldwide. His scheduled heart surgery to address the illness had been postponed a day. By this point, ...

The goal of heart valve surgery is to repair or replace a malfunctioning heart ... but other things like a defective valve at birth, or rheumatic fever, can also cause a leak. In some cases, these ...

But silently, if rheumatic fever is not treated quickly, the disease can attack the heart ... he died during heart surgery in 1973 at age 37. Actor Bill Paxton had rheumatic fever as a 13-year ...

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is where the valves of the heart become inflamed and damaged due to a potentially life threatening condition called rheumatic fever (RF). The Jones criteria is a ...

This kind of blind surgery ... more serious heart defects—children born with congenital heart disorders, breathless and blue and condemned to an early death—or victims of rheumatic fever ...

A Cook County jury awarded $8 million to the family of a 67-year-old woman who died from a pulmonary embolism after a procedure to treat a problematic heart valve was allegedly delayed by her doctors ...

very different at the Kenyatta National Hospital where Resident Cardiologist Bernard Gitura says rheumatic heart disease is the most common heart complication and cause of heart surgery at the ...

Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health and other government ...

The following is a summary of “Racial and Ethnic Variations in Patients Undergoing Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Surgery,” published in the August 2024 issue of Surgery by Winicki et al. Previous studies ...

Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient’s chest through their sternum (breast bone). In many cases today, a minimally ...

very different at the Kenyatta National Hospital where Resident Cardiologist Bernard Gitura says rheumatic heart disease is the most common heart complication and cause of heart surgery at the ...