1), who asked if I would collaborate with him in the development of an artificial heart. He was serious. I told him it was too soon, that we did not even have satisfactory artificial valves ...

Over a 70-year lifetime, your heart beats at least 2.5 billion times. THAT’S B for BILLION! How many times do you flex a hip or knee joint over that same amount of time? Not even close to that ...

A STUDY assessing coronary proximity in patients undergoing transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR) with ...

"And then we're able to sleep between the ribs," he said. "So no bone cutting, no muscle splitting, no rib spreading, the instruments slip between the ribs. Patients have the breathing tube removed on ...

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 ...

The new device created by researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory hopes to change the treatment of heart valve disease forever.

A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s.

The research team wanted to find out the clinical outcomes for patients aged between 50 to 70 years undergoing elective and urgent heart valve replacement at the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) over ...