May 28 -- Undergoing a typical bypass operation today is major surgery. The surgeon opens the patient's chest and sometimes needs to stop the heart temporarily, and rely on a machine to pump the blood ...

THE DOOR FOR PEOPLE IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY WHO NEED BYPASS SURGERY, BUT ARE NOT CANDIDATES FOR AN OPEN HEART SURGERY. IT’S BEING DONE USING A ROBOT. KCRA 3’S ANAHITA JAFARI SHARES HOW THIS SURGEON ...

Fans of Taylor Swift are wishing her father, Bryn Mawr native Scott Kingsley Swift, well as he recovers from heart surgery. Scott Swift, who with wife Andrea raised Taylor in eastern Pennsylvania, ...

CLEVELAND — When one thinks of heart bypass surgery-- a long chest scar, months of recovery, pain and often fear come to mind. Since December, about 55 patients have received a new, robotic approach ...

When applied during open-heart bypass surgery, the results were impressive. "We were able to demonstrate that effects are mediated via this receptor that lead, on the one hand, to connective tissue ...

Women with severe coronary heart disease causing narrowing or blockages in the arteries may derive greater long-term benefits from coronary artery bypass grafting compared with percutaneous coronary ...

Health First's Heart & Vascular Program received a three-star rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for its coronary artery bypass graft procedures. The STS star rating system is one of the ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons has awarded University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute with its highest designation for quality outcomes for isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, ...

Women over the age of 65 who require complex heart surgery are more likely than men to receive care at low quality hospitals - where they also die in greater numbers following the procedure, a ...

While February is American Heart Month, a Moorhead man has a story about a choice he made that saved his life. Curt Kasper of Moorhead was back at work for the first time since December following ...

In July, PEOPLE confirmed that Scott had quintuple bypass surgery one month prior and was on the road to recovery ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Men who underwent heart bypass surgery and consumed about two drinks a day afterward had fewer subsequent cardiovascular procedures than those who abstained, according to a study ...