Doctors perform a number of different outpatient heart procedures, including angioplasty, stenting, pacemaker implantation, and others. If you have a heart condition, your doctor might recommend an ...

In today’s modern medicine, new minimally invasive procedures are making headway instead of the more conventional methods when it comes to treating the many forms of heart conditions and disease.

A coronary artery bypass is one of several types of open-heart surgeries, which are major medical procedures. Open-heart surgery is a group of procedures that involve cutting through the breastbone to ...

University of Iowa Health Care recently debuted a new, minimally invasive heart valve procedure after years of research and months of work toward approval by the Federal Drug Administration. A second ...

In nearly 60 years, heart transplantation has transformed from a daring vision to an established surgical procedure. Since the first adult heart transplant in the United States was performed at ...

When doctors tell patients they’ll access their heart through the groin, many react with confusion or concern. Yet this approach, known as the transfemoral method, has become a cornerstone of modern ...