Heart Valve Disease: Minimally Invasive Advances Helping...
When it operates normally, the heart is a remarkably efficient organ, with the vital help of four valves that directs...
February 24, 2020
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute’s Heart Valve...
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, has been a leader for years in performing a...
October 21, 2019
FDA Approves Device for Heart Valve Replacement...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new device, the Lotus Edge, to better assist doctors when...
May 8, 2019
FDA Approves Expanded Use of ‘MitraClip’ for...
A device called the MitraClip was introduced in 2013 to treat patients with mitral valve prolapse, and other abnormalities that...
March 19, 2019
Medical Clip Benefits Patients with Severe Heart...
A device called the MitraClip may introduce a life-saving new procedure for patients suffering from severe and difficult-to-treat heart failure,...
September 26, 2018
A Lifelong Aortic Defect Leads Her to...
“I had open heart surgery at the age of 7,” recalls Carrie Lois, who is now 57 and the mother...
September 5, 2018
Schwarzenegger’s Heart Valve Replacement Surgery: What We...
Actor, former body-building champion and ex-governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 70, is recovering from heart surgery after complications during a...
April 4, 2018
What You Should Know About Heart Valve...
If left untreated, advanced heart valve disease can cause heart failure, stroke, blood clots or death due to sudden cardiac...
February 16, 2015
