More than one in eight people aged 75 and older in the United States develop moderate-to-severe blockage of the aortic valve in their hearts, usually caused by calcified deposits that build up on the ...

New study examines the effectiveness of 3D printing technology to help confirm and detect the location of a paravalvular leak (PVL) in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) ...

Cardiologists preparing to perform life-saving heart valve replacements can now use customisable 3D-printed models of the organ to assist them with the surgeries, scientists say. Researchers at ...

Long-term, the dream of 3D-printed objects is to use additive manufacturing to be able to bioprint entire functional organs for use in transplant surgeries. While we are not at that point just yet, ...