Roger Black won a bronze and two silver medals across the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, but recently had to undergo open-heart ...

Roger Black was told two things when his cardiologist sat him down with the news that he must prepare for open heart surgery.

TEAM GB icon Roger Black has admitted he was afraid he wouldn’t wake up from the operation that saved his life. Black, 58, ...

The quality of valve surgery itself was still relatively crude for both closed- and open-heart techniques ... implanted quickly into the descending aorta using a nonsuture technique 5.

Dumbauld was born with aortic stenosis, a condition in which the aorta is narrow or ... “In that open heart surgery, they replaced my aortic valve, and they put a patch on my mitral valve ...

Two months later, his echocardiogram led within a week to open heart surgery in ... s a very important valve,” Forrester said. With the aneurysm, the diameter of his aorta just above the valve ...

a common heart problem, in clinical trials, potentially preventing the need for surgery, researchers reported. Aortic valve stenosis, a narrowing due to calcium deposits that forces the heart to ...

Capstan Medical, a startup focused on robotic-assisted mitral and tricuspid valve replacement, recently completed its first ...

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) has increased its coverage for open heart surgeries to almost P1 million and also launched a new benefit package for heart valve repair and ...

Olympic 400m silver medallist and two-time 400m relay world champion Roger Black reveals he had open heart surgery three weeks ago.

Chef and restaurateur Adam Hegsted kept a busy pace with his Eat Good Group of regional eateries, but that screeched to a halt more than a year ago. Hegsted, who exercises most days, hadn't felt ...

Dumbauld was born with aortic stenosis, a condition in which the aorta is narrow or blocked ... another open-heart surgery,” she says. “In that open heart surgery, they replaced my aortic valve, and ...