UW Medicine is researching a non-invasive technique for replacing faulty heart valves that could help patients avoid open heart surgery. It's called the Transcatheter Aortic Valve (TAVR). The aortic ...

Trial findings suggest that the less invasive approach to heart bypass surgery offers comparable safety and efficacy to established methods and that safety issues inherent to invasive catheterisation ...

University of MIchigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, part of Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine, is among the first in the U.S. to perform a catheter-based pulmonary valve replacement on a ...

Many post-surgical heart injuries go unnoticed, but cardiologist input can change outcomes. Study: Peri-operative myocardial infarction/injury after non-cardiac surgery: association between ...

A new approach to the guidance, planning and conduct of heart bypass surgery has been successfully tested on patients for the first time in a clinical trial coordinated by a research team at ...