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• TAVR Procedure Brings New Hope to Heart Patients

  In years past, people with severe aortic valve stenosis had few choices for treatment—but the TAVR procedure offers a new option that can literally bring new life to heart patients.

• New Minimally Invasive Procedure Gives Heart Patients More Options

  Previously, patients with mitral valve regurgitation (MR) had very few options if they weren’t candidates for surgery. The condition, in which one of the heart valves does not close tightly, allowing blood to flow backward into the heart’s left chamber, can lead palpitations, difficulty breathing and fluid build-up in the lungs in patients who have a severe form of this heart disorder.

• Adam’s Story: “Space-Aged Machine” Helps Patient Overcome Heart Condition

  "This sounds just like Star Wars. You'd expect Captain Kirk to walk up."

• New Solution for High-Risk Heart Patients

  A trusted technology is being put to a new use for heart patients once considered too high-risk for surgery.

• TAVR Heart Valve Replacement Benefits Younger, Healthier Patients Too

  Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been used since 2011 for patients with a narrowing of the aortic valve opening (aortic stenosis), whose age or poor health made it unlikely they could survive traditional open-heart surgery. But two new clinical trials indicate that TAVR also can be used in younger, healthier patients.  These results will significantly change how doctors treat patients who have failing aortic valves. 

• First patient at Orlando Health undergoes transcatheter aortic valve replacement

  Catheter used during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure. The transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure is designed for high-risk patients living with severe chest pain, congestive heart failure or symptoms of aortic stenosis — an age-related heart disease that develops when calcium deposits cause the aortic valve to narrow, forcing the heart to work harder to pump enough blood through a smaller opening.

• Hospital Ratings: Behind the Numbers

  With their wealth of statistics and unfamiliar terms, hospital ratings can be a complicated web for healthcare consumers to untangle. So, when it’s time to decide where you want to have a non-emergency surgery or treatment performed, you might be inclined to simply go wherever your doctor recommends. However, depending on your health insurance, you may have multiple hospitals to choose from.

• What Our 3-Star Quality Rating from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Means to The Patient

  Every year, thousands of Americans face major decisions about where to undergo surgery for heart disease or lung cancer.

• Heart Attack vs. Cardiac Arrest: Knowing the Signs

  Sudden cardiac arrest and heart attacks may sound like the same thing, but they are different conditions. If you imagine your body as a house, cardiac arrest is like an electrical problem, while heart attack is like a blockage in the plumbing. Both are life-threatening conditions, but heart attack is far less deadly, and its risks can be mitigated.

• 8 Common Myths About Heart Disease — and the Real Facts

  Millions of people have heart disease. It is the number one cause of mortality in the U.S., and more Americans will die of heart disease this year than cancer, obesity or diabetes.