While the doctors perform an open heart surgery by accessing your heart directly through an incision across your chest, a ...

Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting some ... the doctor said as she used tweezers to pack the wound with gauze. She was perched just below my neck with ...

Revolutionary balloon and stent procedure reduces recovery time from weeks to days, transforming treatment for patients with mechanical heart pumps.

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they underwent open-heart bypass surgery (CABG) or a less invasive procedure ...

"A surgeon who tries to suture a heart wound deserves to lose the esteem ... Walter Lillehei, performs the first successful open heart surgery. Using the hypothermic, lowered-body-temperature ...

Doctors at Tenwek Mission Hospital conduct a surgery on one of the patients during a open heart surgery which saw 12 children benefit. [Gilbert Kimutai, Standard] At Mater Hospital in Nairobi ...