Smaller than a grain of rice, this injectable device could allow for minimally invasive heart-surgery — plus, research ...

If you have an irregular heartbeat caused by atrial fibrillation (AFib), you may need surgery to restore your normal heart rhythm. This is called the maze procedure, a type of surgical ablation in ...

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they ...

Normally, this type of surgery requires open-heart surgery, but MedStar doctors, led by Dr. John Wang and Dr. Brian Bethea, offered her a minimally invasive alternative. "The tricuspid valve is ...

Acyanotic heart diseases and cyanotic heart disease are the two types of CHDs ... correction or device implantation through ...

Robot-assisted heart surgery usually requires an assistant at ... to develop the surgical field expansion plate made from a ...