A writer explores how a Jewish ritual changed her relationship with mortality. I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting some of my stitches, ...

The treatment can vary, ranging from antihypertensive drugs to surgical procedures like heart valve replacement, coronary bypass surgery ... There are three major types of cardiomyopathy: For ...

making it difficult for blood and oxygen to reach the muscles of the heart. Coronary bypass surgery is one treatment option to help restore blood flow, when other surgical procedures may not be ...

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s.

Yale operates first the BATMAN procedure in CT, a less invasive heart treatment offering faster recovery and new hope for ...

Acyanotic heart diseases and cyanotic heart disease are the two types of CHDs ... correction or device implantation through ...

Congenital heart disease is any problem with the heart's development that a person is born with. It means the heart has not formed properly. It affects between four and nine children out of every 1000 ...

During her delivery, doctors performed open heart surgery on Luciano in the first successful operation of its kind. "I was really scared of what could happen because it's a lot of what ifs ...