An 86-year-old woman from Iowa became the first person in Nebraska to undergo a new heart valve replacement procedure, ...

Lawrence Faucette, the recipient of the world’s second genetically modified pig heart transplant, has died nearly six weeks after the surgery, as announced by the University of Maryland Medical Center ...

A man from McCook Lake is back on his feet after receiving a heart surgery that is not common to patients in South Dakota.

Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute cardiology team perform surgery on a patient with heart valve disease, using a newly, FDA-approved clip device. The device gives patients diagnosed with ...

Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart. This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours. Recovery from open heart surgery may take 4-6 ...

In a groundbreaking moment for American medicine, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center have completed the first fully robotic heart transplant ever performed in the United States. In order to ...

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 ...

Gloria Lawless lived with atrial fibrillation, or AFib, for 14 years. After her cardiologist scheduled her for a ...

When we think of heart surgery, we often think of last-minute, life-saving interventions. Operating on the heart is challenging and complex, so it’s not undertaken lightly. But heart surgery can also ...

A local baby born with a severe, life-threatening heart defect has a long road ahead of her that includes multiple open heart ...

Her unborn son, Walker, was diagnosed with ventricular septal defects (VSDs) and atrial septal defects (ASDs) — congenital ...

A man from McCook Lake is back on his feet after receiving a heart surgery that is not common to patients in South Dakota. He ...