Eighty-four-year-old Shirley Deitz kept telling herself she was not going to have heart surgery at her age until the moment she was being wheeled into the operating room last June. "I was terrified," ...

Patients with degenerative mitral valve (MV) regurgitation that calls for surgery may, for the most part, safely choose either a standard procedure requiring a midline sternotomy or one performed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A minimally invasive approach to mitral valve repair was safe and effective vs. sternotomy. Recovery time and ...

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) started 2 weeks after sternotomy for a cardiac procedure was noninferior to usual care, in which CR starts 6 weeks after the procedure, with a greater improvement in ...

Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after starting the surgery?

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Sternal Closure Systems Market by Product (Closure Devices (Wires, Plate & Screw, Cable, Clips) Bone Cement), Procedure (Median Sternotomy, Hemisternotomy, Bilateral ...

SIMS Hospital has achieved India’s first endoscopic keyhole removal of an extremely rare left ventricular cardiac tumour in a ...

CHENNAI: For probably the first time in the proceedings of the Justice (retd) A Arumughaswamy commission, a doctor has declined to sign a part of the testimony recorded during Thursday’s deposition, ...