Imagine having your heart fixed through your wrist. It's now a reality at the OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. Heart patients traditionally undergo cardiac catheterization or stent procedures ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) performed the state’s first minimally invasive procedure to treat severe tricuspid regurgitation, a life-threatening condition caused by a leaky ...

Coronary artery disease, a major global health concern, is effectively managed through angioplasty or bypass surgery.

The mere idea of heart surgery is enough to give anyone the shakes. Open-heart surgery used to be hard years ago. It had a long incision down the chest, weeks in the hospital, and a difficult recovery ...

University of Iowa Health Care recently debuted a new, minimally invasive heart valve procedure after years of research and months of work toward approval by the Federal Drug Administration. A second ...

A teenager is making medical history after surviving a surgery so rare that only one other person in the country has ever ...

In today’s modern medicine, new minimally invasive procedures are making headway instead of the more conventional methods when it comes to treating the many forms of heart conditions and disease.

In a major step forward for heart surgery, doctors in the U.S. have performed a heart transplant entirely with robotic assistance—without opening ...