Imagine having your heart fixed through your wrist. It's now a reality at the OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. Heart patients traditionally undergo cardiac catheterization or stent procedures ...

Patients at surgical risk due to age, frailty or other illnesses such as Parkinson's disease, other serious lung disease, or ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The best path to a clogged heart may be through the wrist. About a million artery-clearing angioplasties are performed in the United States each year, and the usual route is to ...

At 75 years old, Lorraine Cook has lived through two heart attacks and a major open-heart surgery. Now retired, she says her ...

University of Iowa Health Care recently debuted a new, minimally invasive heart valve procedure after years of research and months of work toward approval by the Federal Drug Administration. A second ...

When doctors tell patients they’ll access their heart through the groin, many react with confusion or concern. Yet this approach, known as the transfemoral method, has become a cornerstone of modern ...