Around 1.5 million Britons have a faulty mitral heart valve. To repair or replace it has usually involved open-heart surgery. But Ron Thomson, 81, a grandfather of five and a retired car manufacturing ...

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

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 ...

At two years of follow-up, patients with a poorly functioning tricuspid valve in the heart who received the best available medical therapy plus a minimally invasive procedure using a clip to repair ...

ALBANY, N.Y (WNYT) — Albany Medical Center has performed the region’s first minimally invasive tricuspid valve replacement, benefiting patients with inoperable leaky heart valves. Doctors used the ...

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - April 02, 2016) - Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a viable alternative to traditional open heart surgery for patients with severe aortic stenosis at ...

10 March 2013 MUSCAT -- The Heart Team consisting of cardiologists and cardiac surgeons and cardiac anaesthetists at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital successfully carried out an advanced procedure ...

Capstan Medical, a developer of robotic-enabled, minimally invasive solutions to address heart valve disease, today announced ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Edwards Lifesciences' SAPIEN 3 platform, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) therapy, for patients with severe aortic stenosis without ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Report with market evolution powered by AI - The global heart valve repair and replacement devices market size is estimated to grow by USD 3.73 billion from ...