In a world-first, a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, has ...

Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

PeriCor, a company co-founded by mechanical engineering PhD student Justin Opfermann, has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Open heart surgery is a way to treat heart disease. To do it, your doctor opens your chest wall, cuts through your sternum, and spreads your ribs to get access to the heart. Open heart surgery is ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A catheter-based procedure that uses a clothespin-like device threaded ...

Thoracic aneurysm open surgery is a treatment for a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a bulge in your aorta. The aorta, your body’s largest blood vessel, begins at your heart and extends into your ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. --The total hospital cost of mitral valve repair surgery -- from the time a patient is admitted to the hospital until release --is similar, whether performed through small port ...

A man, 22, had a cough for weeks due to a tumor compressing the tube that carries air into his lung. Doctors did open-chest surgery to remove the tumor, which was almost 7-inches long. According to ...

Dillon Schultz walked into University Medical Center earlier this month for his fourth pulmonary-valve replacement. Four days and one Tylenol later, the 18-year-old was back in class at summer school.