Doctors perform a number of different outpatient heart procedures, including angioplasty, stenting, pacemaker implantation, and others. If you have a heart condition, your doctor might recommend an ...

During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...

After three years of construction, Overton Brooks Veterans Affairs Medical Center officially unveiled its newly remodeled ...

Many minimally invasive procedures are available to treat problems with your heart. These procedures can fix issues like malfunctioning valves and blockages in your heart’s arteries. Traditional heart ...

Retired meat-cutter Will Neighbors is still plenty sharp. But when he was diagnosed with a failing heart valve, he knew he was in trouble. "I just couldn't do anything," said Neighbors. "I couldn't ...

Inova Schar Heart and Vascular at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus was the only hospital in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area selected to participate in an earlier clinical trial demonstrating the ...

The FDA has approved the Minima stent system, the first device specifically designed for infants and young children with congenital heart defects. The innovative stent could help thousands of children ...

Cutting edge imaging, rapid PCI protocols, and patient centered follow up improving outcomes for acute coronary syndromes.

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