Aortic aneurysm surgery Your doctor may recommend surgery if your aneurysm is big -- more than 2 inches (5 centimeters), or if it's getting larger quickly -- growing more than 3/16 inch (0.5 ...

In fact, an employee at his clinic had an abdominal aortic aneurysm measuring about 7 centimeters (doctors recommend surgery to fix them at 5.5 centimeters), and he didn’t know it.

Facility Director at SDM Narayana Heart Centre Shashikumar I. Pattanshetti said that the team’s expertise and patient-focused ...

In that surgery, called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, cardiologists insert a replacement valve through a patient’s groin and thread it all the way to the heart.

In June 2023, after her annual echocardiogram, 57-year-old Kim Rose’s cardiologist delivered the daunting, but unsurprising, verdict that it was time to refer her to a surgeon for open-heart ...

When Michael McGrath's recovery room nurse helped him stand after his hip surgery at UC Davis Health in late December 2024, ...

A Georgetown County teenager is preparing to head to Boston, Massachusetts, for a rare surgery to help treat two rare ...

Based on these findings, as well as the patient's medical history, the doctors determined that she had a rare genetic condition called alkaptonuria. Globally, the inherited disease is thought to ...