The unconventional method could be the future of heart surgeries.

It involves less pain, less bleeding, and there’s lower risk of infection,” said cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Sanjay Tripathi.

Australians undergoing open-heart surgery could soon benefit from safer, simpler care and get home earlier thanks to the ...

A patient who needed lifesaving heart surgery has become the first person ever to receive a coronary artery bypass without ...

An anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic has developed an iPad app for patients recovering from heart surgery, according to an ABC News report. “What the iPad does is allow patients to access their plan ...

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) Jan ...

Doctors have delivered gene therapy during heart bypass surgery for the first time, aiming to strengthen blood vessels ...

Heart surgery patients get blood drawn so often that they sometimes develop hospital-acquired anemia, according to a study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. All too often, healthcare ...

Ernest House needed a liver transplant. But a heart condition was keeping him off the transplant list. “I would have died,” he says. “There's no doubt about that. My body was failing.” A former ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - One Saint Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute patient is sharing her lifelong journey with heart disease that has left hospital staff feeling like family. 41-year-old Christin ...

Almost four weeks after The Wynn Hospital paused its open-heart-surgery program, there is no word on when the surgeries will again be available in Utica. The Mohawk Valley Health System has hired an ...

At Baylor Scott & White's Heart Hospital in Plano, five patients recently came a long way for life-saving surgeries. The hospital partners with a charity called Haiti Cardiac Alliance to bring some of ...