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 ...

In a groundbreaking moment for American medicine, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center have completed the first fully robotic heart transplant ever performed in the United States. In order to ...

Shana Hale, a Brooklyn mother of two and a technology executive, noticed a mild burning sensation in her chest during her ...

A coronary artery bypass is one of several types of open-heart surgeries, which are major medical procedures. Open-heart surgery is a group of procedures that involve cutting through the breastbone to ...

A 47-year old woman went to the hospital with chest pain and shortness of breath. When she arrived, doctors discovered a wire that had been left behind from a previous surgery four years ago. The ...

Cleveland Clinic surgeons are using a new robotic-assisted procedure to replace a damaged aortic valve through a small neck incision. Doctors say the technique may shorten recovery time compared with ...

Walker Farrington, 7, was diagnosed with congenital heart defects before birth ...