CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new trial showed a procedure that thousands need each year to keep their hearts healthy may be performed in a safer way. The alternative way may help with recovery time.

Researchers have created a new noninvasive technique for performing a type of artery bypass that may change the future of ...

It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it ...

It involves less pain, less bleeding, and there’s lower risk of infection,” said cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Sanjay Tripathi.

FOR THE FIRST time, doctors have successfully completed a coronary artery bypass without cutting the patient open. They ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - For the first time ever in a human, doctors have performed coronary artery bypass grafting without having ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among those requiring mitral valve surgery, Black patients were less likely to undergo a minimally invasive ...

Clinicians at Piedmont Heart Institute at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital performed the first HighLife Trans-septal Mitral Valve Replacement in the United States on July 13, as part of an early feasibility ...

THE DEATH PENALTY. A RETIRED MOUNT AIRY NURSE MADE HISTORY AND IT INVOLVES HER HEART. SHE IS THE FIRST PERSON TO UNDERGO A NEW PROCEDURE HERE IN THE PIEDMONT. WXII 12 KRIS PETERSON HAS DETAILS ON THE ...

People with severe aortic stenosis, a condition where the heart’s aortic valve narrows and restricts blood flow, can already undergo a less invasive and faster procedure compared to traditional ...

UW Medicine is researching a non-invasive technique for replacing faulty heart valves that could help patients avoid open heart surgery. It's called the Transcatheter Aortic Valve (TAVR). The aortic ...

MILWAUKEE — About two years ago, John McLees' lungs had become so badly damaged that he could barely get from one side of his small condo to the other without feeling like he'd just finished an ...