A Phoenix hospital became the first in the nation to successfully perform a new procedure aimed at treating patients with ...

TULSA, Okla. — A new procedure at the Oklahoma Heart Institute is changing lives for people at high risk for heart surgery.

MAN’S STORY. YOU COULD SAY HE IS LUCKY TO BE ALIVE. YEAH, DEB, THIS STORY COULD HAVE ENDED BADLY. DEVONTE FLETCHER IS ONLY 30 YEARS OLD, BUT HE HAS A HISTORY OF IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT, ATRIAL ...

Criteria for who should get heart surgery and when are based primarily on research in men, but two studies suggest this leads ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among those requiring mitral valve surgery, Black patients were less likely to undergo a minimally invasive ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

A pregnant influencer is opening up about a terrifying medical ordeal. Leah Jay, a content creator who lives in Austin, Texas, revealed that she went to doctors to remove a blood clot in her leg ...

The UK Mini Mitral trial, showing that mitral valve repair with the less invasive minithoracotomy approach achieved similar outcomes compared with sternotomy, has now been published. The trial, which ...

Leah Jay — an Australian content creator living in Austin, Texas — had to have surgery to remove a “large bacterial growth” ...

"The last few weeks have been the scariest and most eye-opening of my life," Australian content creator Leah Ramsey wrote on ...

An international study of more than 400 adults concludes that people who undergo mitral valve surgery (between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart) and also have less than severe ...

Mitral valve prolapse treatment aims to relieve symptoms, prevent complications, and improve the quality of life of people who have blood that leaks back into their heart’s left atrium. Mitral valve ...