A GRANDFATHER has become one of the first Irish patients to undergo a new alternative to open-heart surgery – and told how he now has his life back. Derek Toomey, 62, from Finglas in Dublin, ...

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

Replacing a faulty heart valve can restore healthy circulation, but the procedure carries some risks. These include blood clots, infection, and other complications. Generally, the outlook is usually ...

A man has described as "black and white" his transformation after undergoing a new heart procedure at the Mater Hospital in Dublin.

Heart valve disease happens when one or more of your heart’s four valves don’t work properly, preventing oxygen-rich blood from moving efficiently through your heart and to your body. This forces your ...

OU Health expanded its structural heart program with minimally invasive valve repair and replacement therapies for patients ...

Abbott Laboratories has received approval for a mitral valve replacement that can be implanted without open-heart surgery. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration gave the OK for the North Chicago-based ...