Now serving as Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Froedtert South Medical Group and Froedtert Pleasant Prairie Hospital, ...

Raikar serves as a principal investigator on multiple clinical trials involving valve replacement, heart failure, and ...

For patients who undergo cardiac surgery, systematic use of a two-pronged strategy that involves sternotomy closure with rigid-plate fixation (RPF) plus an enhanced-recovery protocol (ERP) can produce ...

Summary: Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) announced on January 26, 2026, that the FDA granted 510(k) clearance expanding da Vinci 5 indications to include selected thoracoscopically-assisted cardiac ...

(UPDATED) The prevalence of frailty prior to cardiac surgery is high, varying widely depending on the tool used to capture it, and it’s significantly associated with a higher risk of patient-defined ...

The findings have significant implications toward patient selection and listing strategies, easing concerns related to heart transplantation in adults with CHD and destigmatizing most subtypes of ...

New collaborations and technological advancements in 3D modeling mean experts at Boston Children’s can plan and simulate heart surgery with precision — before anyone even enters the operating room.

People from socioeconomically distressed communities who underwent heart transplantation between 2004 and 2018 faced a 10% greater relative risk of experiencing graft failure and dying within five ...

For patients who experience excessive bleeding during cardiac surgery, four-factor prothrombin complex concentrate (4F-PCC), a blood product that contains clotting factors, is significantly more ...