The surgery was done on a 67-year-old man whose aortic valve was already replaced with a prosthetic. However, he developed a ...

The world’s first minimally invasive heart bypass procedure — done without cutting open the chest wall — has been performed ...

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart has a single moving part – a levitated rotor that’s held in place by magnets. - BiVACOR An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s valve center. As a part of FOX 12’s ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: CARMAT (FR0010907956, ALCAR), designer and developer of the world’s most advanced total artificial heart, aiming to provide a therapeutic alternative for ...

Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center completed the first fully robotic heart transplant, a breakthrough procedure that could transform the future of heart surgery. The patient, Tony Ibarra, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) _ When Robert Tools was wheeled into Jewish Hospital this summer, he was so weak he could barely lift his head. He was too ill to qualify for a heart transplant, and he said he ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his Manhattan home at age 79. Jarvik received his medical ...

Gurgaon: A 29-year-old man from Jharkhand underwent what doctors described as a rare and high-risk hybrid cardiac surgery at ...