FOR THE FIRST time, doctors have successfully completed a coronary artery bypass without cutting the patient open. They ...

Infant heart transplants are extraordinarily rare. A Times health journalist donned scrubs and witnessed how the surgery ...

A Carson City man who underwent double-bypass heart surgery 30 years ago spent the decades that followed wanting to express ...

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

It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it ...

Kenneth Liao, MD, PhD, completed his 900th robotic heart surgery in December.  Robotic procedures that Dr. Liao and his team ...

It involves less pain, less bleeding, and there’s lower risk of infection,” said cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Sanjay Tripathi.

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 ...

Frustrated by his inability to help these men, Harken began a series of experimental surgeries on animals. In the first round ...

Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common kinds of arrhythmia, causing the heart not to contract properly in order to ...