EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Hospitals of Providence Sierra Campus’ cardiac team performed El Paso’s first pulmonary valve ...

A GRANDFATHER has become one of the first Irish patients to undergo a new alternative to open-heart surgery – and told how he ...

Surgeons combine triple-vessel revascularisation, mechanical mitral valve replacement and clot removal in a single sitting ...

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 ...

Patients who require treatment to address failed bioprosthetic mitral valves have comparable 30-day outcomes no matter whether it’s a transcatheter valve-in-valve (ViV) procedure or a repeat surgical ...

Edoxaban, an oral anticoagulant, was equally or more effective than warfarin in reducing the risk of stroke and blood clots for patients after heart valve replacement surgery, according to preliminary ...

Co-led by Chenyang Li, a PhD candidate at Fuwai Hospital in Beijing, the study explores how chronic mouth infections might ...

For people experiencing severe aortic stenosis who do not have symptoms or need symptom relief, early aortic valve replacement surgery may be beneficial because it reduces the risk of death, heart ...

A new multicenter study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery finds that reoperative surgical mitral valve replacement (rSMVR) is associated with significantly better long-term survival compared ...

In patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis at intermediate or higher surgical risk, CoreValve or Evolut transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was associated with a lower 5-year ...

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

CHICAGO — Edoxaban, a direct oral anticoagulant, appeared to be as effective as or more effective than warfarin in preventing thromboembolism — such as stroke, systemic embolism, or intracardiac ...