Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is valve replacement without open-heart surgery. It is also called catheter-based or percutaneous (through the skin) aortic valve replacement. While ...

Recent advances include artificial heart valve replacements performed entirely through a groin catheter, eliminating the need for open-heart surgery in many patients. These innovations have ...

The valve replacement is typically an open-heart surgery. A minimally invasive surgery or a catheter procedure to replace the aortic valve may be an option for some people. During open-heart valve ...

Where valves were damaged beyond repair, artificial valves were put in. Blocked arteries were bypassed. Weakened arteries were replaced altogether. Modern heart surgery seemed unstoppable.

Capstan is combining surgical robots with catheter-based technology to provide a less invasive option for open heart surgery. The US-based startup will initially target mitral valve replacement ...

A revolutionary new medical procedure gaining traction in the UAE allows patients to bypass the need for traditional heart ...

First of all, the valve can be folded to around 4 millimeters and implanted without open-heart surgery. It is essentially ... “Using the delivery catheter, the smallest delivery profile reported ...

You may have heard the phrase, “Old age is not for sissies.” Looking forward to impending heart surgery, the phrase hits home. I have a faulty aortic valve – technically “aortic valve stenosis,” not ...

The procedure uses a hollow tube called a catheter that’s guided through a blood vessel to the heart. The test gives cardiologists key details about the heart muscle, heart valves and vessels in ...

The Medtronic Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve system provides a minimally invasive alternative for congenital heart ...

The Uganda Heart Institute on Tuesday unveiled a catheterization laboratory (CathLab), a specialised heart theatre in which minimally invasive procedures are performed to diagnose and treat ...