ATLANTA (MarketWatch) -- An Abbott Laboratories ABT, +1.96% device designed to improve a leaky heart valve without major surgery met its safety and effectiveness goals in a key study released Sunday.

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 ...

The mitral valve is inside a person’s heart. A person with mitral valve disease may require mitral valve repair surgery as a treatment. A person’s heart contains four chambers. The two upper chambers ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioStable Science & Engineering, Inc. announced today that the first commercial implantations of its HAART 200 Aortic Annuloplasty Device were performed on Monday, ...

When a heart valve is damaged or doesn’t close properly, it can cause what’s known as a “leaky valve.” Depending on the severity of the leaky valve, there are several different treatment options, ...