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 ...

February is American Heart Month, and Feb. 22 is Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day. Sign up for our Newsletters News 8 asked Dr. Arun Kanmanthareddy, a UPMC cardiologist, what makes heart valve ...

MONTH AND TOMORROW IS HEART VALVE DISEASE AWARENESS DAY. SO RIGHT NOW I’M JOINED BY DOCTOR ARUN KUMAR REDDY WHO IS A CARDIOLOGIST AT UPMC. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME ...

Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

Your aortic valve is an essential barrier between your heart and your body. When it works properly, the aortic valve is a one-way valve that separates the left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of ...

A doctor may recommend various medications, such as antiarrhythmics, anticoagulants, or beta-blockers, to help treat heart valve problems. In some situations, a person may only require medications to ...

The heart has four chambers with two on the right side and two on the left. In order to keep the blood flowing in the correct direction, the heart has one way valves after each chamber to prevent back ...

Q: I'm a 53-year-old woman and I recently had a heart ultrasound. It showed that I had a small leak in a heart valve with regurgitation. Can you tell me if that would cause dizziness when I lay back ...

There are three types of bicuspid aortic valves — types 0, 1, and 2. Experts classify these types based on whether the leaflets of the valve have fused to form a ridge. A bicuspid aortic valve is a ...