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.

Fortis Healthcare successfully conducted a high-risk hybrid cardiac surgery on 29-year-old Saif Alam, with a complex ...

TV chef Rick Stein had to undergo an open heart surgery after experiencing life-altering symptoms that could have proved ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...