Electrophysiology (EP) procedures are crucial in diagnosing and treating various heart rhythm disorders. They involve a doctor placing thin catheters into the heart to assess its electrical activity.

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 ...

The procedure used to treat arrhythmias typically allows for a short recovery time, but precautions are necessary to preserve healthy heart function. Heart ablation creates little scars on heart ...

Doctors perform a number of different outpatient heart procedures, including angioplasty, stenting, pacemaker implantation, and others. If you have a heart condition, your doctor might recommend an ...

University of Iowa Health Care recently debuted a new, minimally invasive heart valve procedure after years of research and months of work toward approval by the Federal Drug Administration. A second ...

OGDEN – Kristi Gagnier said she went from near death one day to wanting to run a marathon the next. That’s how much better she felt after receiving a life-saving procedure at Intermountain McKay-Dee ...

The mere idea of heart surgery is enough to give anyone the shakes. Open-heart surgery used to be hard years ago. It had a long incision down the chest, weeks in the hospital, and a difficult recovery ...

OGDEN — Larry McClurg knows he would not be standing at a celebratory reception six weeks after having heart surgery 30 years ago. If doctors back then discovered he had a damaged heart valve, they ...