AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) - A baby girl, born weighing just over a pound, has a better chance at a healthy life after having a hole in her heart closed. Doctors at Children's Hospital Colorado made the ...

Heart catheterization, a procedure to detect and clear clogged arteries, traditionally involves inserting a plastic tube through a groin incision into the femoral artery. But a new study shows fewer ...

Many minimally invasive procedures are available to treat problems with your heart. These procedures can fix issues like malfunctioning valves and blockages in your heart’s arteries. Traditional heart ...

KINGWOOD, TX (KTRK) -- Marie Holt, a 79-year-old former Navy nurse from San Antonio is the first patient at the Kingwood Medical Center and in the Lake Houston area to have a specialized heart ...

Orlando Health St. Cloud has opened a new cardiac catheterization lab and intensive care unit as part of a $32 million ...

Cardiac catheterization is a procedure that provides information on how well the heart is working. To perform this procedure, a healthcare professional inserts flexible tubing into the heart through a ...

SAN DIEGO–Heart biopsies, which are typically performed via catheterization through the groin or neck, are possible and may cause less discomfort for patients when performed through a vein in the ...

ATLANTA (FOX 5 Atlanta) - Interventional cardiologist Dr. Wissam Jaber, Director of the Cardiac Cath Program at Emory University Hospital, is not part of Senator Bernie Sanders' care team. But, Dr.

During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is valve replacement without open-heart surgery. It is also called catheter-based or percutaneous (through the skin) aortic valve replacement. While ...

Editor's Note: This article is made possible through a sponsored content partnership with New Hanover Regional Medical Center. Structural heart disease includes conditions in which the heart’s valves, ...