ANSWER: I am very sorry to hear about the sudden death of your friend during surgery. Open-heart surgery is always risky, but ...

The overall mortality risk from an open-heart mitral valve surgery is about 11%, which is about one in nine people based on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cleveland Clinic surgeons are using a new robotic-assisted procedure to replace a damaged aortic valve through a small neck incision. Doctors say the technique may shorten recovery time compared with ...

Of the two heart valve surgeries Janice Smith has had at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, the second was much easier for her. "I had a good experience both times," the 86-year-old said. "It's just that ...

Replacing a faulty heart valve can restore healthy circulation, but the procedure carries some risks. These include blood clots, infection, and other complications. Generally, the outlook is usually ...

A simpler alternative to open heart surgery is gaining popularity, but some find ​their new valves don’t last as long as they hoped.

A medical expert reviewing the operation said that it was very unfortunate and unusual that every major step of the operation that could go awry did go awry.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mary Ann George had a question for Dr. George D'Angelo, shortly after the groundbreaking Erie heart surgeon replaced two of her ...

Robert Shanahan needed surgery only twice in his life coming into this year, once to remove his tonsils when he was young, the other more recently when he needed a stent to open one of his blood ...