What Happens During Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery? Minimally invasive heart valve surgery is a type of surgery performed through smaller incisions. This type of surgery reduces blood loss ...

Mertz was diagnosed with the condition and was told she would need a tricuspid valve replacement. Normally, this type of surgery requires open-heart surgery, but MedStar doctors, led by Dr. John ...

Partial heart transplants provide a range of lifesaving options for children with complex congenital heart conditions, and ...

Loma Linda University Children's Hospital recently made history performing the first pediatric partial heart transplant in ...

Mechanical heart valves have improved long-term survival benefit over biological valves for patients aged 50-70 years, new ...

Mitral valve replacement is a type of partial heart transplant. Doctors take healthy valves from the heart of a patient receiving a heart transplant and use the valves of the patient's removed ...

The Duke team performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, a type of partial heart transplant, which Duke ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.

A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s.