A Maryland preteenager became the first patient in the world to receive a live heart valve in replacement of an artificial ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

MemorialCare offers advanced, minimally invasive heart treatments like TAVR & MitraClip as alternatives to open-heart surgery ...

Open-heart surgery is a general term that refers to any surgery where a surgeon accesses the heart by opening the chest. They’ll make an incision in your chest and then cut through the ...

Nine years later, in 2023, she underwent open-heart surgery at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa to repair a damaged mitral valve. As if the shock of having cardiac arrest and needing open-heart ...