To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Structural heart disease affects the valves and structures ...

Compared with traditional replacement valves, sutureless valves placed through minimally invasive cardiac surgery have less data supporting their use but offer unique features that might make them the ...

TO GET IT DONE....AND HE'S GONE FROM FIGHTING FOR EVERY BREATH...TO ALREADY FEELING BETTER. "WELCOME, YOU LOOK GOOD. HAVE A SEAT. HOW DO YOU FEEL. DOING GREAT. YOU DID WONDERS WITH ME. OKAY!" THIS IS ...

The Lee Health Heart Institute is home to primary and specialty cardiovascular care, nationally ranked hospitals, the Shipley Cardiothoracic Center, cardiac rehabilitation and more, as well as the ...

Your heart has four valves, which keep your blood flowing in the right direction. If one doesn’t work correctly, it can put you at higher risk for stroke or congestive heart failure. More than 182,000 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A minimally invasive procedure to replace the aortic heart valve is superior to open surgery for patients with an intermediate risk of complications, according to a study that ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. When the heart can’t pump blood through the body as well ...

There are two options to consider if you need to have your aortic valve replaced.

It isn’t often that medical device makers cheer for a competitor’s product. But Irvine-based Edwards Lifesciences Corp. believes that any kind of positive news for less-invasive heart valves can only ...