This advanced technique allows surgeons to repair the valve without the need for a traditional open-heart procedure.

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.

Conditions like valve disease, small holes in the heart, or abnormal heart connections can cause symptoms such as shortness ...

During American Heart Month, Baylor Scott & White Health cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Anita Kruger explains why aortic stenosis is often overlooked — and how TAVR, a minimally invasive valve ...

When one of the heart's valves springs a big leak, that can spell big trouble. The good news: The condition, known as degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR), is treatable using a minimally invasive ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute in Central Pa. today announced that its doctors treated a patient using the Half Moon Medical transcatheter mitral repair technology (Half Moon TMVr System). This ...

TO GET IT DONE....AND HE'S GONE FROM FIGHTING FOR EVERY BREATH...TO ALREADY FEELING BETTER. "WELCOME, YOU LOOK GOOD. HAVE A SEAT. HOW DO YOU FEEL. DOING GREAT. YOU DID WONDERS WITH ME. OKAY!" THIS IS ...

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

TRiCaresAnnouncesSuccessfulImplantationofMinimallyInvasiveTopazTricuspidHeartValveReplacementSystemin Patient with a Pacemaker Paris, France and Munich, Germany ...

Doctors at Oklahoma Heart Institute are now offering a newly FDA-approved heart valve replacement that requires no open-heart surgery, making Tulsa the first hospital in the region and the third in ...

The UK Mini Mitral trial, showing that mitral valve repair with the less invasive minithoracotomy approach achieved similar outcomes compared with sternotomy, has now been published. The trial, which ...