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 ...

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 ...

Testing by Rutgers Health and other institutions is reshaping how – and how gently – doctors repair failing valves ...

Professor of Surgery, Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Director of Structural Heart Disease Mark Russo recently helped author three new trials that support less invasive treatments for valvular heart ...

Shortness of breath is one of the most common side effects after open-heart surgery. It can last for weeks or months, but symptoms typically improve over time. Open heart surgery can restore your ...

GOOCHLAND, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A 7-year-old Virginia girl is thriving months after undergoing open-heart surgery for a congenital heart defect. Millie Haenlein, a second grader at Goochland ...