School of Medicine, an international, multi-site clinical study led by an IU School of Medicine researcher and ...

Losing cardiac surgery could jeopardize Upstate’s status as Central New York’s only level 1 trauma center that provides around-the-clock care to seriously injured people in 14 counties.

Patients who have open heart surgery, for example, have their breastbone cut so surgeons can reach their heart. In minimally invasive heart surgery, doctors make small cuts (or incisions) between your ...

A children's heart surgery service is in a "precarious state" amid concerns over staffing, above-average death rates and an increase in major complications, a report has found.Leeds Teaching Hospitals ...

After receiving life-saving blood and platelet donations during heart surgery, John Nanni has given blood platelets about ...

Barry Jackson, a longtime track coach in New Jersey, is recovering from open-heart surgery, but he isn't done coaching yet.

Catheter ablation is the more common procedure. Types of cardiac catheter ablation Catheter ablation, also called radiofrequency or pulmonary vein ablation, isn't surgery.

Cardiac surgery is a lifeline for both patients and hospitals. It's one of the most profitable service lines in American medicine, generating an average of nearly $3.7 million in revenue per ...

Cardiac surgeons perform surgery on the heart, the aorta, the pulmonary vein, and other important structures related to cardiac health. They do not typically diagnose heart disease.

The percentage of people who die during or soon after heart bypass surgery—the most common heart surgery in the U.S.—has been cut nearly in half since 1990. (In 2016, it was 2.1 percent.) ...

Among patients who underwent other cardiac surgery, the lowest high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I value, measured within 1 day after surgery, that was associated with an adjusted hazard ratio of ...

The authors conclude that "cardiac surgery can be performed with low operative mortality and good mid-term survival in patients with Child-Pugh class A." Acceptable results are also possible with ...