Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among those requiring mitral valve surgery, Black patients were less likely to undergo a minimally invasive ...

TULSA, Okla. — A new procedure at the Oklahoma Heart Institute is changing lives for people at high risk for heart surgery. “That’s why it’s so ground breaking and important. This is the first such ...

Led by Daniel Won, BS (Northwestern Medicine), and published recently in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the retrospective ...

Greg Denning has never really liked going to the doctor, and for most of his life he's been an active person who was able to avoid significant medical care. That started to change one day when he and ...

Women undergoing non-mitral cardiac surgeries—specifically CABG or aortic valve replacement—are less likely than their male counterparts to receive guideline-recommended concomitant procedures to ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers report similar outcomes for two types of heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Suriyapong Thongsawang/Getty Images A new study is the first randomized clinical trial to ...

MAN’S STORY. YOU COULD SAY HE IS LUCKY TO BE ALIVE. YEAH, DEB, THIS STORY COULD HAVE ENDED BADLY. DEVONTE FLETCHER IS ONLY 30 YEARS OLD, BUT HE HAS A HISTORY OF IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT, ATRIAL ...

Medtronic announced today that it received FDA approval for its Mosaic Neo mitral bioprosthesis and began its U.S. launch.

The overall mortality risk from an open-heart mitral valve surgery is about 11%, which is about one in nine people based on ...