It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it ...

Four teams were assembled at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute to save a mother. — -- In any emergency medical procedure, doctors are quick to make a plan and jump into action. But for the ...

The first time Mesfin Yana Dollar assisted with an open-heart surgery, his patient was a teenage girl from Ethiopia. She was scared and crying. He went to her bedside at Emory University Hospital in ...

Fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, and confusion are just a few of the emotions patients and their caregivers navigate before, during, and after open-heart surgery. “The emotional and mental health ...

The world of medicine has seen a fascinating leap forward with the advent of robotic surgeons, now performing heart surgeries at an impressive 99% success rate. This revolutionary development ...

A local Air Force veteran in Naples made an impressive recovery after undergoing life-saving open-heart surgery. Less than five weeks later, he is back on his feet. Tim Guerrette, a retired Air Force ...

Petersburg, Va.-based Southside Regional Medical Center has received state approval to open an open-heart surgery program that would provide bypass surgery and heart valve repair services, according ...

The Neighbors were Angry that her and her wife wouldn’t clean this area up but her Wife just had open heart surgery and she just had a heart attack, Neighbor just came over asking when she was going ...

Today, Brooks Klingsporn is a happy 1-and-a-half-year-old baby. However, he's already had more heart surgeries than most people get in a lifetime — including one before he was even born. Last year, ...

There are many times when it is inappropriate to tweet. At dinner, for one. In the middle of a movie. And, in most cases, open heart surgery. Dr. Paresh Patel, however, had a good reason to tweet ...