During most open-heart surgeries, including valve surgery, it is necessary to connect you to a heart-lung bypass machine. During this time, your heart will stop. This machine takes over the work of ...

Heart & Vascular Center is offering new hope for cardiac patients with a less invasive alternative to open-heart surgery.

“In heart valve surgery, a surgeon repairs or replaces the damaged or diseased heart valve or valves. Methods to do this may ...

including coronary artery disease and valve disease. Patients who are candidates for robotic heart surgery are typically those who are at high risk for traditional open-heart surgery. This can include ...

In this episode, learn about how the Starr-Edwards valve came to be and the inventors ... In 1957, Starr was recruited to establish the first open-heart surgery program at the University of ...

The quality of valve surgery itself was still relatively crude for both closed- and open-heart techniques. But we made a deal. We would start the project by developing one valve at a time ...

Jim Twigg was moments away from the operating room when he had some major second thoughts. But after a little prodding from his wife of 48 years, reason overpowered anxiety and he underwent surgery at ...

In a finding that challenges conventional thinking on when people with failing heart valves but no symptoms should get ...

UVA Health has a new way to fix a leaky tricuspid valve in a person’s heart. The new solution avoids open heart surgery. “The ...

Hyderabad: The doctors at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) treated a patient with a rare heart condition without ...

Doctors at the Mayo Clinic have pioneered a new approach to treat stubborn heart infections without the need for surgery. Using a catheter-based technique, they successfully removed pockets of ...

In the past, cardiologists have been wary of replacing valves partly because that would have required open-heart surgery, which carries its own significant risks, the Times reported. But the ...