The world’s first minimally invasive heart bypass procedure — done without cutting open the chest wall — has been performed ...

It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it ...

This surgery is ideal for patients who may be deemed inoperable or at high risk for open heart surgery. For patients like Ms.

For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery.

Eric Peck, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, says the Alpha Vac system can cut heart patients' recovery time from months to hours. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Open heart ...

Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale was hospitalized over the Labor Day weekend. Local furniture store owner and personality Jim ‘Mattress Mack' McIngvale announced this week that he will soon undergo ...

Upper St. Clair students learn from a member of Allegheny General Hospital’s surgery team while surgeons perform open heart surgery, viewable up close on the screen. Dr. George Magovern, who pushed ...

Open heart surgery is an incision that is made through the sternum, otherwise known as the breastbone, which is then spread apart. This form of opening is called a full or median sternotomy. Following ...

A North Texas hospital is being credited with saving the life of a newborn baby from Georgia. After being turned away from ...

When Merv Rogers went to the doctor for shoulder pain, he had no idea he’d be having open heart surgery a few weeks later.

With Arcangel's 'La 8va Maravilla' on the way, the Puerto Rican artist speaks on reggaetón, his open-heart surgery and creating his 'sober album.' ...

Everly Backe, who was born with a congenital heart defect, was just 3 days old when she had her first open-heart surgery These parents found a very special way to honor their 4-year-old daughter.