The patient’s bad heart was pulled underneath his breastbone and through his abdomen, with the transplanted heart going up ...

Gary Ratkiewicz knew he needed surgery to open up blocked arteries in his heart. But the active 67-year-old feared the long road to recovery. “My dad had gone through it 40 years ago, and I saw ...

UC Health surgeons performed the first endoscopic triple valve procedure in the U.S. on a 63-year-old patient. Less than a week after surgery, the patient was cleared to drive to Chicago with ...

Traces of dried blood are still visible on the shrapnel from a Russian drone that became lodged in his heart while he was ...

While avoiding spreading the breastbone, which aids in recovery, Houston doctors recently performed the first fully robotic ...

Open-heart surgery is any kind of surgery in which a surgeon makes a large cut, or incision, in a person’s chest to allow them to open the rib cage and operate on their heart.

Surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S., using advanced robotic tools to avoid opening ...

Open heart surgery involves opening up the chest to repair a fault or damage in the heart, or to replace it. ... Doctors can do this via catheter instead of making a large incision.

Robotic heart surgery is a technique that uses small chest incisions and precise surgical tools that are controlled by a robot. It allows our heart surgeons to perform cardiac surgeries through less ...

The aorta, your body’s largest blood vessel, begins at your heart and extends into your abdomen. A thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) occurs in the chest portion of your aorta. During thoracic aneurysm ...

The surgery is also minimally invasive, in that it's performed with a small incision that doesn't involve cutting through the breastbone, and the heart is beating while the surgeon does the bypass.

In open-heart surgery, a patient’s ribs are cracked apart and the heart is stopped to insert the new aortic valve. With TAVR, the only incision is a small hole in the groin where the catheter is ...