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

Replacement of a heart valve through the arteries of the arm. Innovative and minimally invasive surgery in the hybrid room of ...

Debbie Hillwig was facing her second heart surgery in seven years. The first surgery to replace her aortic valve required ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

In more serious cases, aortic valve replacement may be the best option. This can be done with traditional, open-heart surgery or with a relatively newer procedure known as transcatheter aortic ...

New Delhi: For many in India, heart valve replacement is seen as ... it involves replacing both the aortic and pulmonary valves in a single surgery, making it more demanding than standard valve ...