Saad Hasan, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon at The Christ Hospital Health Network, had performed bloodless surgeries before. He was on call the evening of Parker’s aortic dissection and walked to the ...

Ben McCullough, 76, received an EVOQUE heart valve last fall. On Wednesday, he got to thank the makers face-to-face.

With the help of telesurgery and using India's first indigenously developed surgical robot, a doctor in Gurugram conducted a ...

ST. LOUIS – A heart transplant patient and his surgeon celebrated a life-changing anniversary by performing together on stage at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. Rodney Cochran, a veteran and ...

Ben McCullough met the 25 Edwards Lifesciences technicians who spent 20 hours hand-sewing 2,000 stitches to make a valve device implanted in his heart.

1 in 5 Older Adults Get Infections After Heart Surgery, and Women Have a 60% Higher Risk Feb. 19, 2025 — One in five older adults gets an infection up to six months after heart surgery ...

Here, we speak to a surgeon about the procedure. The chief symptom of mitral valve dysfunction is breathlessness and severe fatigue, and often patients have palpitations from an abnormal heart rhythm.

Cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, at the BT MindRush 2025 event, said that in sudden heart attacks there's always an underlying issue that remains undiagnosed. Listen to Story Cardiac surgeon Dr ...

This is a rare reaction thought to be genetic in origin that causes dangerously high fever, muscle spasms, a rapid heart rate, and possibly death. Overall, the risk of death from general surgery is ...

Managing hypertension (high blood pressure) before, during, and after surgery is important to ensuring the best outcomes. If your blood pressure is too high before surgery, the procedure may need to ...