Baer had a quadruple bypass followed by more open-heart surgery to plug a leaky mitral valve. “Every time the heart tries to pump the blood out of the heart into the big aorta, almost 30 to 40% ...

While more than 11 million Americans are living with heart valve disease at this very moment, leading to 25,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, an estimated three in four people have little to no ...

Q. I have a leaky heart valve that may need surgery down the road. Can you tell me about heart-valve surgery in one of your columns? A. First, let’s explain briefly how the heart works.

Former PGA Championship winner Davis Love III is recovering at home after undergoing open-heart surgery last week. Love, 60, underwent surgery to replace a “leaky valve” on Jan. 21 and was ...