Owen Monroe was 18 days old when he made history, becoming the first person in the world to receive a partial heart transplant. His groundbreaking surgery, performed in 2022, even captured the ...

Many minimally invasive procedures are available to treat problems with your heart. These procedures can fix issues like malfunctioning valves and blockages in your heart’s arteries. Traditional heart ...

A South Carolina woman has a new lease on life after undergoing a revolutionary heart procedure. Patricia Harkey doesn’t want to reveal her age, but it played a big role in her decision to forgo open ...

Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute cardiology team perform surgery on a patient with heart valve disease, using a newly, FDA-approved clip device. The device gives patients diagnosed with ...

Veteran actor Prem Chopra, 90, underwent a TAVI procedure for severe aortic stenosis after open-heart surgery was ruled out due to his age. The minimally invasive technique replaces the aortic valve ...

Of the two heart valve surgeries Janice Smith has had at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, the second was much easier for her. "I had a good experience both times," the 86-year-old said. "It's just that ...

Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

When we think of heart surgery, we often think of last-minute, life-saving interventions. Operating on the heart is challenging and complex, so it’s not undertaken lightly. But heart surgery can also ...

In June, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge began offering a new option to heart patients with leaky tricuspid heart valves, a condition that doctors previously had few tools to treat.

For the first time in the Balkans and the wider region, a robot-assisted heart surgery was performed at the "Dedinje" ...

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What’s more moving than an acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards for a Grammy-winning song? A gift of one million dollars in ...