The Iowa Board of Medicine fines a Des Moines surgeon in the death of a patient who a lawsuit alleged suffered an injury ...
After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an ...
While federal officials say they intend to crack down on misleading drug ads, cosmetic surgery remains a “buyer beware” ...
Background Up to half of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) require cardiac surgery. Although anaemia is common, its precise prevalence, transfusion practices and impact on outcomes in ...
A Dallas couple turned to Texas Children's Hospital for a complex and high-risk procedure to insert a stent in their son's ...
Gastric bypass patients had a lower rate of major adverse cardiac events than sleeve gastrectomy patients over 5 years. This was driven by a 40% risk reduction for myocardial infarction among gastric ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Specialists at the Norton Heart and Vascular Institute made history this week in Louisville using a first-of-its-kind heart procedure. The EVOQUE transcatheter tricuspid ...
In nearly 60 years, heart transplantation has transformed from a daring vision to an established surgical procedure. Since the first adult heart transplant in the United States was performed at ...
TAVR stands for transcatheter aortic valve replacement -- a life-changing, minimally-invasive heart procedure that helps patients feel better -- faster. Dr. Joseph Walsh, a Structural Heart ...
Valdosta, Ga.-based SGMC Health completed its first patent foramen ovale closure procedure at its heart and vascular center. The procedure was performed by interventional cardiologist Daryoosh ...
Michael Davis, who is recovering from cardiac surgery, and his wife Donna in the backyard of their Boca Raton home in October 2025. Michelle Marchante [email protected] Michael Davis’ heart ...
While the first innovators in the area of minimally invasive cardiac procedures began introducing methods such as finger-fracture valvuloplasty as early as the 1920s — in the case of England’s Henry ...