A heart valve replacement by transcatheter aortic ... Methods to do this may include open-heart surgery or minimally invasive heart surgery.” Heart valve surgery becomes necessary when the ...

This Santa Cruz startup raised $110 million to develop a robotic alternative to open-heart surgery. Here's how it's changing ...

When I first went to my GP complaining of nasty chest pains, he said there was nothing wrong. But six months later I had a routine health check and was told I had a heart murmur and must see a ...

The symptoms of aortic stenosis often appear only when the disease is at an advanced stage. In women, many symptoms are ...

A program at Allegheny General Hospital allows students an up-close look at heart surgeries. While they watch the team work ...

Open-heart surgery is "usually the best solution for most valve conditions that cannot be managed with medication," according to Houston Methodist's treatment page for heart valve diseases.

Clark Howard, Atlanta consumer expert, talks about his aortic valve surgery last year and how he appreciates life more now as his annual Clark's Christmas Kids concludes.

PHOENIX — A Scottsdale hospital recently became the first non-clinical trial site in Arizona to use a new medical tool to perform a tricuspid heart valve ... forms of open-heart surgery ...

For the first time in Arizona, a new type of heart valve replacement has successfully treated an adult ... from the right ...

High-cost factor, has stalled the process's large-scale implementation in government hospitals, doctors point out ...

The first patient to undergo a mitral valve replacement in August 1960 was ... surgery and developed a widely used protocol for open-heart surgery. About 800,000 Starr-Edwards heart valves were ...