With significant advancements in heart treatment, the days of open-heart surgery as the only option for complex heart conditions are mostly behind us. Today, minimally invasive procedures can be used ...

Although open-heart surgery can be life saving, it may lead to long-term side effects such as chronic pain, memory difficulties, and emotional or psychological challenges. Open-heart surgery is one of ...

In 2014, seemingly healthy 24-year-old Brittany Williams suffered sudden cardiac arrest at a Manhattan restaurant. At the hospital, doctors diagnosed her with a heart rhythm disorder called long QT ...

When Megan Wild delivered her son Luciano, she experienced not only childbirth but also a medical first. During her delivery, doctors performed open heart surgery on Luciano in the first successful ...

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 ...

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, ...

"GMA" shares an exclusive story for American Heart Month about a groundbreaking procedure that involves open heart surgery on a baby while he was being born. "GMA" shares an exclusive story for ...

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 ...

The update comes after the internet personality's X account announced earlier this week that she had been diagnosed with a heart tumor Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Open-heart surgery is a general term that refers to any surgery where a surgeon accesses the heart by opening the chest. They will make an incision in the chest and then cut through the breastbone and ...

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 ...

“They put it back in, so don’t trip,” she joked during a conversation with Tamron Hall about heart disease Tamron Hall Show/Youtube Star Jones is reflecting on having open-heart surgery 14 years ago, ...