MemorialCare offers advanced, minimally invasive heart treatments like TAVR & MitraClip as alternatives to open-heart surgery ...

Before your blood gets pumped out of your heart to circulate through the body, it must pass through the aortic valve. If the aortic valve becomes narrowed or hardened, the condition known as ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive procedure used to replace damaged heart valves, ...

Open-heart surgery is a general term that refers to ... after surgeries like coronary artery bypass and a heart valve repair or replacement. Medicare Advantage (Part C) is an alternative to ...

An innovative, minimally invasive procedure is reducing the risk faced by patients with heart valve disease and improving ...

Researchers have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before. Aortic stenosis is a progressive and potentially fatal condition ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) today announced the launch of its latest surgical risk calculator designed for patients undergoing ascending aorta and aortic root surgery, with or without ...

University of East Anglia scientists have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more ...

FDA approved the Sapien 3 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) platform for treatment of severe aortic stenosis ...

Heart valves that slowly fail like a door with “rusty hinges” are not being detected early enough even though they can be treated with a simple replacement valve and no open heart surgery, a cardiac ...

Medicare will typically cover open-heart surgery. Learn more about which parts cover this treatment and the costs associated with it.