Open-heart surgery is a general term that refers to any surgery where a surgeon accesses the heart by opening the chest. They will make an incision in the chest and then cut through the breastbone and ...

(NewsNation) — The recent success of the first U.S. heart transplant done through fully robotic means suggests a medical future where surgeons use less invasive means to do complicated procedures. In ...

The mere idea of heart surgery is enough to give anyone the shakes. Open-heart surgery used to be hard years ago. It had a long incision down the chest, weeks in the hospital, and a difficult recovery ...

A Phoenix doctor helped develop live-saving treatment for a dangerous heart condition called mitral annular calcification, or ...

Kimmel’s 7-year-old son Billy underwent his third open heart surgery last month. The lead surgeon who performed all three heart surgeries on Jimmy Kimmel’s son Billy at the Children’s Hospital Los ...

TAVI has transformed treatment for patients who are too weak for open-heart surgery. It offers faster recovery, fewer complications, and a chance at a better quality of life. TheHealthSite.com ...

My heart was breaking, but not from lost love. It was failing in the most literal sense. In 2020, my doctor recommended that I get an echocardiogram — an ultrasound of the heart — to establish a ...

Four teams were assembled at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute to save a mother. — -- In any emergency medical procedure, doctors are quick to make a plan and jump into action. But for the ...