The honor recognizes Health First’s patient care and outcomes relative to isolated coronary artery bypass grafting procedures ...

The burden of cardiovascular diseases among smokers is profoundly evident. Cigarette smoking, a leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality, exerts a particularly pernicious impact on the ...

As tools become more precise and non-invasive, doctors are able to diagnose and treat heart conditions with greater accuracy and efficiency.

Keeping blood pressure under control is critical. For patients who have been unable to successfully maintain that control, there is a new, cutting-edge surgical procedure available at The Heart Center ...

A Bakersfield hospital Monday became the first in Kern County to successfully implant the AVEIR DR, the world's first dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system from Abbott that treats people with ...

Overall complication rates were similar to those seen with transfemoral access, however, and patients liked it better.

The ancient Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle once concluded that the human heart is tri-chambered and that it was the ...

With that said, the procedure is not performed on vessels that are structurally unsound. In addition, balloon angioplasty cannot be performed on arteries or veins smaller than 1.5 millimeters (0.06 ...

A Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy) is a complex surgery involving several procedures during one operation. It is often performed to treat pancreatic cancer. It will take time for the ...

They included 3518 participants with genomic data (median age, 64 years; 70.1% men; 89.6% White individuals) from a hospital-based biobank who underwent their first coronary angiography between ...

An artificial intelligence (AI)-based assessment of coronary CT angiography outperformed visual assessment by human readers and demonstrated superior agreement with a quantitative coronary ...

A woman in her 80s has received an apology in the High Court for the perforation of her throat during a gastroscopic procedure. Sligo University Hospital apologised and acknowledged the ...