The incidence of cardiovascular disease is rising across the globe, with more than 28 million people worldwide living with ...

Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

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 ...

Many minimally invasive procedures are available to treat problems with your heart. These procedures can fix issues like malfunctioning valves and blockages in your heart’s arteries. Traditional heart ...

When doctors tell patients they’ll access their heart through the groin, many react with confusion or concern. Yet this approach, known as the transfemoral method, has become a cornerstone of modern ...

A leaky heart valve refers to a heart valve that does not close properly and cannot repair itself. Treatment usually involves surgery, but it is possible to resolve the issue without surgery. When a ...

The country singer’s daughter was diagnosed with a ventricular septal defect just after she was born in 2014 ...

“Surgery of the heart has probably reached the limits set by Nature to all surgery: no new method, and no new discovery, can overcome the natural difficulties that attend a wound of the heart.” So in ...

On July 9 at 1 p.m., Professor Kwak Jae-geun (51), a thoracic surgeon at Seoul National University Hospital’s Children’s ...

Indiana, who has Down syndrome, was diagnosed with a hole in her heart shortly after she was born in 2014 Her surgery was meant to take place on Wednesday, June 24, but was pushed back to the ...