A small, button-like object was inserted through the femoral vein in her groin to close the small hole, and she said her heart tissue would grow back around the closure device. Never miss a story ...

Surgeons snaked up through his femoral vein to insert the replacement valve inside the damaged heart. The procedure is less invasive than open-heart surgery. Ben McCulloch was out of the hospital ...

The GSV runs from the medial ankle to the groin, joining the common femoral vein at the saphenofemoral ... responsible for pumping blood back to the heart. As pressure increases during calf ...

Holston Valley Medical Center is the first hospital in East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Southeast Kentucky to offer innovative new procedures for repairing and replacing the tricuspid valve ...

A catheter is inserted into the femoral vein, advanced to the right atrium ... based on certain echocardiographic criteria. New York Heart Association functional class III-IV symptoms with ...