TULSA, Okla. — A new procedure at the Oklahoma Heart Institute is changing lives for people at high risk for heart surgery.

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

Doctors at Oklahoma Heart Institute are now offering a newly FDA-approved heart valve replacement that requires no open-heart ...

Criteria for who should get heart surgery and when are based primarily on research in men, but two studies suggest this leads ...

VARIOUS technics are now available for the open correction of acquired mitral-valve disease. Reconstructive methods first introduced by Lillehei and his associates 1 have been improved by others, 2–7 ...

An international study of more than 400 adults concludes that people who undergo mitral valve surgery (between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart) and also have less than severe ...

Deaths among elderly patients undergoing mitral valve surgery have decreased dramatically in recent years -- making the procedure a feasible option, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the ...

Dr. Robert Michler answers the question: 'Replacing Mitral Valve During Bypass?' — -- Question: I have a 'leaky' mitral valve. My doctor wants me to have my valve replaced while I am having my ...

"The last few weeks have been the scariest and most eye-opening of my life," Australian content creator Leah Ramsey wrote on ...

Leah Jay — an Australian content creator living in Austin, Texas — had to have surgery to remove a “large bacterial growth” ...