Most 17-year-olds are sleeping at 7 a.m. on a weekday, but Anna Gabrielle Geneblazo was wide awake watching open-heart ...

Luciano Reynaga was delivered just minutes after undergoing heart surgery. When Megan Wild delivered her son Luciano, she experienced not only childbirth but also a medical first. During her delivery, ...

Surgeons at Intermountain Health are testing a new approach to treat the ascending aorta — a critical artery once considered ...

Mesfin Yana Dollar came to the U.S. for surgery. Now he works at the Mayo Clinic, assisting with some of the world’s most ...

Kimmel’s 7-year-old son Billy underwent his third open heart surgery last month. The lead surgeon who performed all three heart surgeries on Jimmy Kimmel’s son Billy at the Children’s Hospital Los ...

Testing by Rutgers Health and other institutions is reshaping how – and how gently – doctors repair failing valves ...

Open heart surgery is an incision that is made through the sternum, otherwise known as the breastbone, which is then spread apart. This form of opening is called a full or median sternotomy. Following ...

Eric Peck, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, says the Alpha Vac system can cut heart patients' recovery time from months to hours. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Open heart ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A man feared some very scary news would take away something he loved so much. He was determined for that not to happen. It wasn't going to be easy. It's a story of ...