Some heart patients haven't yet been able to access the growing trend toward minimally invasive procedures. A new clinical trial, though, makes a form of mitral valve repair an option without an ...

The Nairobi West Hospital successfully repaired a complex heart defect in a 40 year old woman, highlighting gaps and growing ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Key Takeaways Angioplasty is a procedure to open blocked heart arteries using a ...

SAN RAMON, Calif., and VILNIUS, Lithuania, BioVentrix, a pioneer of technologies and procedures for less-invasive treatment of heart failure (HF), today announced the first-in-man use of its next ...

Sarasota Memorial Hospital is one of the first hospitals to use a new FDA-approved treatment for failing tricuspid valves. The new procedure is less invasive than traditional surgery and allows ...

Maze surgery, or surgical ablation, is a procedure commonly recommended to treat an irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation) when other methods such as medication, cardioversion therapy (electric ...

This manuscript synthesizes findings from a multidisciplinary panel following the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method to guide standardization of urinary catheter use after transurethral prostate surgery ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Centesis Catheters Market by Type (Small and Large Bore), Procedure (Paracentesis, Thoracentesis, Amniocentesis), Application (Diagnosis, Therapeutics and Palliative Care ...