My heart was breaking, but not from lost love. It was failing in the most literal sense. In 2020, my doctor recommended that I get an echocardiogram — an ultrasound of the heart — to establish a ...

Runner gets open-heart surgery after childhood congenital heart defect surgery. Feb. 6, 2013— -- Like many relatively recent college graduates, Jane Lee wasn't always on top of her doctor's ...

Every year, more than 12,000 Australians undergo open heart surgery—an hours-long medical procedure during which surgeons go inside the chest cavity and repair faulty heart valves or bypass blocked ...

In March 2025, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas, performed the first fully robotic heart transplant to take place in the United States. The operation avoided a ...