This surgery is ideal for patients who may be deemed inoperable or at high risk for open heart surgery. For patients like Ms.

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) surgery is a procedure to place a durable mechanical heart pump into a poorly functioning heart. LVADs help your heart’s lower left chamber (ventricle) pump blood ...

It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it ...

Heart surgery beginning in the late morning is linked to a modest increase in cardiovascular mortality when compared to other ...

A Maryland preteenager became the first patient in the world to receive a live heart valve in replacement of an artificial one during a partial heart transplant in a Washington, D.C., hospital. The 11 ...

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 ...

A milestone in robotic surgery was announced Tuesday in Houston, as Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center surgeons revealed they successfully performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the ...

Frustrated by his inability to help these men, Harken began a series of experimental surgeries on animals. In the first round ...