KINGSTON — Kingston Health Sciences Centre surgeons are now performing a new minimally-invasive cardiac procedure that will ...

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 ...

Medical procedures for coronary artery disease include angioplasty, which uses balloons and stents to open blocked arteries, and bypass surgery, which creates new pathways around blockages using ...

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they underwent open-heart bypass surgery (CABG) or a less invasive procedure called ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 14 years, patient access to TAVR has been restricted for Medicare beneficiaries under a Coverage with Evidence ...

When operating on the heart, surgeons may find another issue in the patient. Depending on what they see, the surgical team may address on the secondary condition during the same operation. These are ...

Steven and Lori Stokes took their 13-year-old daughter, Isabelle, to Oregon Health & Science University for open-heart ...