Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient’s chest through their sternum (breast bone). In many cases today, a minimally ...

At two years of follow-up, patients with a poorly functioning tricuspid valve in the heart who received the best available ...

What Happens During Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery? Minimally invasive heart valve surgery is a type of surgery performed through smaller incisions. This type of surgery reduces blood loss ...

Alternative options for valve replacement are minimally invasive surgeries, which avoid a large incision and typically allow ...

The Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Fellowship program is a one-year, Texas Medical Board approved program (TMB #503-48-05-42). This program provides an education in innovative multidisciplinary ...

Robotics has significantly changed minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in many medical specialties. By adding robotic systems to these procedures, surgeons can work with more accuracy, reach the ...

The patient was admitted to the intensive care unit to manage her heart failure symptoms This is the case of a 35-year-old female patient and a new mother; her baby was just a few weeks old when ...

The chordae tendineae (CT), often referred to as the “heart strings,” are thin, tendinous structures that connect the heart ...