New data from a large, international registry showed balloon-assisted anterior ... used to replace damaged heart valves, offering patients an alternative to open heart surgery.

A newer approach allows you to get a fresh valve without open-heart surgery. It’s called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR. It’s a little like balloon valvuloplasty because it ...

Kimmel’s 7-year-old son Billy underwent his third open heart surgery last month. The lead surgeon who performed all three heart surgeries on Jimmy Kimmel’s son Billy at the Children’s ...

"It wasn’t that dramatic,” the 69-year-old said of the surgery Daniel Wright/Shutterstock Sandra Bernhard said she underwent open-heart surgery The performer said her procedure was scheduled ...

By Jessica Alpert I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting some of my stitches, spitting them out like rotten food. “It should heal on ...