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 ...

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

ALBANY, N.Y (WNYT) — Albany Medical Center has performed the region’s first minimally invasive tricuspid valve replacement, benefiting patients with inoperable leaky heart valves. Doctors used the ...

Physicians at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati are the first in the Greater Cincinnati region to utilize technology in order to perform heart valve replacement on patients who do not qualify for ...

In a world-first, a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, has successfully performed a coronary artery bypass - a normally open-heart ...

The success of TAVR has also sparked research into transcatheter solutions for other valve diseases, including mitral and ...

With significant advancements in heart treatment, the days of open-heart surgery as the only option for complex heart conditions are mostly behind us. Today, minimally invasive procedures can be used ...

UC San Francisco interventional cardiologists and interventional echocardiographers recently performed the health system’s first commercial transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement procedure using ...

Mary Ann George had a question for Dr. George D'Angelo, shortly after the groundbreaking Erie heart surgeon replaced two of her heart valves in 1974. George was only 20 at the time, but her heart had ...

The results of a new clinical trial have overturned the “wait and see” approach that cardiologists have long favored for symptom-free patients. By Benjamin Mueller For decades, people with failing ...