In the United States, more than 1.1 million cardiac catheterizations, also known as heart caths, are performed each year. The medical procedure is used to diagnose and treat some heart conditions, ...

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 ...

The groin is the usual access point for investigating or treating the heart with a catheter, but using the wrist as access point reduces bleeding and lowers mortality. These findings are from an ...

Minimally invasive catheter procedures are transforming structural heart care, offering selected patients valve repair, replacement and faster recovery without traditional open-heart surgery.

The shortest path to the heart turns out to be the best one - not in love necessarily, but in cardiac catheterization, one of the most common procedures in the U.S. The shortest path to the heart ...