A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

Physicians at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati are the first in the Greater Cincinnati region to utilize technology in order to perform heart valve replacement on patients who do not qualify for ...

The new catheter-inserting technique is less invasive than conventional surgery and so may be a promising option for severely ill patients, but also carries greater risk of stroke and other major ...

Open-heart surgery has long been the primary approach for heart valve replacement. Today, however, breakthrough catheter-based technologies offer patients minimally invasive alternatives to ...

TAVR is a less invasive procedure than traditional open-heart surgery, offering faster recovery, reduced risk, and shorter ...

Abbott Laboratories has received approval for a mitral valve replacement that can be implanted without open-heart surgery. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration gave the OK for the North Chicago-based ...

Edis Sierra of Danville couldn’t do many of the little things she loved — including playing fetch with her Sheltie, Shammy. After undergoing mitral valve replacement surgery in 2018, Sierra began ...

Corcym and CardioPrecision have developed a robot-enabled transcervical approach to aortic valve replacement. This story was originally published on MedTech Dive. To receive daily news and insights, ...

OR AKIVA, Israel, Dec. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Allmed Solutions (TASE: ALMD), an Israeli biomedical company, has announced a dramatic success in a first-in-human trial, achieving the full replacement ...