Open heart surgery is a common but invasive procedure. Surgeons have tested an unconventional way to perform coronary artery bypass without cracking the chest.

Apr. 4—Mosaic Life Care is one of the only hospitals in Missouri to earn the American College of Cardiology accreditation for a minimally invasive cardiovascular procedure. The transcatheter aortic ...

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

McLaren Northern Michigan performed 75 transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedures in 2025, more than double the ...

Frailty is associated with reduced cardiac rehabilitation use in Medicare patients, despite these individuals deriving the greatest mortality benefit.

However, over the last 12 years, the migration of procedures to the outpatient setting has steadily grown and in the last few years, the growth has been exponential. During a September podcast hosted ...

Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Merit Health Wesley hospital has recently launched a cardiovascular procedure that gives patients an alternative to the lifelong use of blood thinners. Merit Health ...

Everywhere scientists look for microplastics, they've found them -- food, water, air, and some parts of the human body. But examinations of our innermost organs that aren't directly exposed to the ...

In November, CMS finalized its Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System ...

The heart is an intricate plumbing system of valves, pumps and pipelike vessels which control the flow of blood throughout the body, and the doctors who specialize in its function, diagnosis and ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. On Jan. 6, the first heart catheterization procedure was ...