In a milestone moment for medicine, a child is recovering with a brand-new heart following the first-ever pediatric heart ...

Cohen Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) performed its first pediatric heart transplant on March 28, just weeks after receiving ...

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they ...

On Sept. 6, 2024, Lev'Veon became the first child in Michigan to get a total artificial heart, and he is possibly the ...

In patients experiencing excessive bleeding during cardiac surgery, a concentrated blood product containing proteins that ...

During most open-heart surgeries it is necessary to connect you to a heart-lung bypass machine. During this time, your heart will stop. This machine takes over the work of the heart, oxygenating your ...

Professor Gianni Angelini, Director of the Bristol Heart Institute at the University of Bristol, and cardiac surgeon at ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Clinical trial results published March 29 in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicate a potential shift in managing ...

In some procedures, the heart is slowed with medicine but is still beating during the procedure. For these types of surgery, a heart-lung bypass machine is not needed. (For open-chest surgery, a heart ...

The institute is now working to eliminate such risks with a $4.9m multidisciplinary drug trial. The drug is used to cool ...

As with other bypass patients, Bakaeen has encouraged ... the risk of cognitive decline is low thanks to advances in heart-lung machines, anesthesia, and care before surgery, among other improvements.