For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery.

The surgery was done on a 67-year-old man whose aortic valve was already replaced with a prosthetic. However, he developed a ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - For the first time ever in a human, doctors have performed coronary artery bypass grafting without having ...

The world’s first minimally invasive heart bypass procedure — done without cutting open the chest wall — has been performed ...

A patient who needed lifesaving heart surgery has become the first person ever to receive a coronary artery bypass without ...

Operators performed closed-chest bypass before TAVI in a high-risk patient with decompensated HF due to a failing aortic ...

Researchers have created a new noninvasive technique for performing a type of artery bypass that may change the future of ...

Among patients who are already taking statins, giving additional doses in the hours before CABG isn’t worthwhile, the StaRT-CABG trial shows. The 30-day rate of MACCE (a composite of all-cause ...

Beating-heart compatibility: Reduces stroke risks and complications, and potentially over 50% cost reduction with a standardized, reproducible and easy-to-learn technology. EDE/UTRECHT, The ...

CLEVELAND — When one thinks of heart bypass surgery-- a long chest scar, months of recovery, pain and often fear come to mind. Since December, about 55 patients have received a new, robotic approach ...

A heart attack survivor is the first person to receive groundbreaking gene therapy which aims to prevent a major heart ...