This procedure can be done while your heart is still beating. Your surgeon may use ... blood thinners or aspirin to prevent clots. Open-heart surgery will take the longest to recover from.

Three-year-old Alexander Akicita White Bull loves to play and watch Cocomelon. “He’s just like any other little boy,” said ...

Within three weeks of her surprise diagnosis, the little girl was in a hospital operating room undergoing open-chest heart surgery.

By Jessica Alpert I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting some of my stitches, spitting them out like rotten food. “It should heal on ...

A MAN assumed he was suffering from an allergic reaction after feeling a strange ripping in his chest - little did he know he'd be undergoing open heart surgery days later to save his life.

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they ...

Smaller than a grain of rice, this injectable device could allow for minimally invasive heart-surgery — plus, research ...

A Queens man is calling it a miracle that doctors found a match for a first-of-its-kind triple organ transplant on Long ...

Maryland's first artificial heart valve replacement performed without open-heart surgery 04:16 A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan ...

Every heart beat 50% of blood volume went backwards ... rather than through open heart surgery. “So we go in through the neck and we can insert [the valve] across her existing valve in her ...