Awareness Month, and mum Freya O'Sullivan wants to raise awareness for children in Ireland living with heart defects ...
People think they can just get an operation and that’s it – they don’t know how much it can affect their life' ...
Left untreated, the condition can lead to heart failure. In October, Powers Health reached a milestone by performing a transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) procedure using the EVOQUE ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 8 – A new non-surgical heart procedure is proving to be a game changer, especially for patients with critical underlying conditions. Traditionally, such patients were treated ...
Recovery from open heart surgery, both in the hospital and beyond, is a long, involved process. The duration depends on the specific medical issue being treated, with a minimum of six weeks to be ...
UVM Medical Center is the only Vermont hospital offering Tricuspid Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER) This new heart valve repair procedure brings leading-edge cardiac care closer to home for ...
One of those patients is 2-year-old Gigi Leonard, who went through a 10-hour surgery to fix a life-threatening heart condition. NBC 5 spoke with Gigi’s parents and the surgeon who helped her ...
The procedure is designed for patients suffering from mitral regurgitation, a serious heart condition where the mitral valve leaks, allowing blood to flow backwards into the left atrium.
In a clinical trial, the model showed results with accuracy comparable to gold-standard but more-invasive procedures, giving hope to those at risk of heart failure. The condition has recently seen ...