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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart. This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours. Recovery from open heart surgery may take 4-6 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we think of heart surgery, we often think of last-minute, life-saving interventions. Operating on the heart is challenging and complex, so it’s not undertaken lightly. But heart surgery can also ...

The FDA approved a new treatment to replace part of your heart with no open heart surgery. The Oklahoma Heart Institute was the only center in Oklahoma to participate in this study. Dr. Kamran ...

Stepping back into competitive sports after heart surgery sounds understandable, but for these athletes, it’s just part of their medical history. They dealt with heart murmurs, valve replacements, and ...