Albany Medical Center has performed the region's first minimally invasive tricuspid valve replacement, benefiting patients ...

Heart valves can be replaced with open heart surgery or with less invasive procedures that don’t require your chest to be opened. Known as transcatheter valve replacement, this type of procedure has ...

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.

VA Palo Alto Health Care says its structural heart team has just achieved a national first, performing the Veterans Health ...

Additionally, several new trials reporting longer-term follow-up on MICS coronary and valve surgery have demonstrated durable ...

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 ...

The heart valves play a vital role in ensuring blood flows correctly through the heart and the rest of the body. If they do not function correctly, a person may require surgery to replace the damaged ...

Bicuspid aortic valve surgery involves repairing or replacing a bicuspid valve. The procedure corrects a congenital condition in which a person has two cusps instead of three. A bicuspid aortic valve ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive procedure to replace your aortic valve. The aortic valve controls blood flow from your heart to your aorta, the main artery that ...

The Ross procedure, also called the pulmonary autograft procedure, is a type of heart surgery that treats aortic valve problems (the main valve that sends blood from your heart to your body) in active ...

BOSTON, Aug. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Corcym today announced that its Perceval Plus ® sutureless aortic heart valve was used in a First-Ever robotic aortic valve replacement, through a tiny incision in ...