During an average lifetime, the heart beats more than 2 billion times. To you, it might just be a steady "lub-dub" that speeds up under pressure and slows as you drift to sleep. But behind that ...

Heart surgery types include: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Also known as heart bypass surgery, CABG is a type of open heart surgery that improves blood flow to the heart.

Short-lived lesions sometimes appear in the brain following heart surgery — and now, a new trial hints that they might be linked to migraines and visual auras. More work is needed to know if they ...

WebMD explains the causes and symptoms of the different types of heart disease, including coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, heart failure, and heart valve disease.

At Sanford Health in Bismarck, doctors have now performed 500 transcatheter aortic valve replacements, known as TAVR.

A minimally invasive procedure gives one patient a second chance — and signals major strides in cardiovascular care.

Just weeks after open heart surgery and with her mother Susan Felitto by her side, 28-year-old Justine Felitto is feeling pretty good. “I didn’t really think I needed to get anything looked at.

Margaret Van Bruggen’s family had just 24 hours to decide whether to let Duke surgeons perform a heart-valve-transplant surgery that had never been done before.

Margaret Van Bruggen’s family had just 24 hours to decide whether to let Duke surgeons perform a heart-valve-transplant surgery that had never been done before.