New minimally invasive heart valve procedures are helping patients recover faster, reduce complications and return to the ...

Doctors will replace Walters' aortic valve. May 11, 2010— -- Barbara Walters said on Monday that her upcoming heart surgery, a procedure known as an aortic valve replacement, will hopefully ...

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A type of heart surgery that speeds up patients' recovery time is being used at a Wolverhampton hospital for the first time.

Even an indestructible bodybuilder like Arnold Schwarzenegger has not been immune to serious injuries and health setbacks.

A major international study has found that two widely used treatments for severe aortic valve disease — minimally invasive valve replacement and traditional open-heart surgery — may provide similarly ...

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

Open-heart surgery has long been the primary approach for heart valve replacement. Today, however, breakthrough catheter-based technologies offer patients minimally invasive alternatives to ...

Another senior doctor explained Gandhi Hospital and Osmania General Hospital are lacking in introducing TAVR yet.

Taylor resident Charlotte Wells is a heart surgery pioneer. At age 10 in 1956, she had open-heart surgery to repair a congenital hole in her heart and was one of the first children nationally to get ...

If you have severe tricuspid valve regurgitation, doctors may recommend repair or replacement surgery. The tricuspid valve is one of four valves in your heart’s four chambers. It’s on the right side ...