Heart Valve Surgery

Heart patient pumped for race

9 Feb 2012

An upper East Side grandmother who recently underwent open heart surgery is about to put her pacemaker through its paces.

New heart valve surgery offers frail patients hope

9 Feb 2012

A pioneering medical procedure using a collapsible heart valve that’s given a Vancouver, Wash., man a new lease on life is poised to bring good news to thousands of heart patients in Oregon. At a news conference held at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center on Tuesday morning, doctors from ...

Valve replacement without open heart surgery becomes an option for Oregonians

7 Feb 2012

Providence St. Vincent Medical Center is the first in the state to replace a patient's failing aortic heart valve by using instruments threaded through an artery in the groin.