Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement without the need for open-heart surgery. For years, Mertz, a great-grandmother from Essex ...

An 11-month-old baby born with a life-threatening hole in his heart was saved by a cutting-edge hybrid procedure performed at ...

In a groundbreaking event for Arizona healthcare, HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center recently became the first ...

With the help of a long, flexible tube and a balloon, surgeons at Yale New Haven Health Heart & Vascular Center have a new ...

When Megan Wild delivered her son Luciano, she experienced not only childbirth but also a medical first. During her delivery, doctors performed open heart surgery on Luciano in the first successful ...

Paralympian Hunter Woodhall went to visit his dad in the hospital and ended up becoming a patient himself. “Came to Utah to ...

A balloon is used to open the artery, and a small metal stent is placed to keep ... Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery During bypass surgery, the patient is put under general anesthesia, the chest bone is ...

Amara Hospital in Tirupati offers robotic knee replacement surgery and transcatheter aortic valve implantation for precise ...

During her delivery, doctors performed open heart surgery on Luciano in the first successful operation of its kind. "I was really scared of what could happen because it's a lot of what ifs ...

I was on a call with my boyfriend, and he said, ‘You’re slurring your words,’ ” recalled Evelin Acosta, then 19, to The Post. “In the morning, my parents told ...

A Vanuatu tourism executive has become the first international to undergo open heart surgery at the Pacific Specialist ...