The balloon pump can help improve the heart’s ability to pump blood as it needs to. Through a surgical procedure, the device is inserted through your leg into the heart. This is a short-term solution ...

The patient had severe aortic stenosis, preventing the valve from opening properly. It had calcified and blood was not ...

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 ...

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Pune: A team of cardiologists at Manipal Hospitals in Kharadi has successfully performed a rare lifesaving heart procedure on a 70-year-old woman with severe aortic valve narrowing and multiple health ...

Abbott has taken a step forward in the development of a new addition to its structural heart portfolio, completing the first patient procedures with a yet-unnamed transcatheter aortic valve ...

Common procedures include: 1) balloon angioplasty, which uses a balloon catheter to collapse a plaque (that is, a buildup of fats, cholesterols, and other substances) against the vessel wall in order ...