An aneurysm causes the aortic wall — the aorta is the largest artery in the body — to weaken or bulge. A severe aortic ...

John Mauceri had a complicated health history, but his sudden swelling and fatigue left his team of doctors stumped.

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

The Duchess International Hospital has achieved a remarkable medical milestone by performing complex open‑heart surgery on ...

The MitraClip procedure offers notable advantages over traditional open-heart surgery; MitraClip is performed using smaller incisions and reduced trauma to the chest. This is especially ...

Born at 17 weeks early with holes in their hearts, these premature twins in New Orleans were some of the first to receive ...

After a series of tests, she was diagnosed with heart disease in 2010 and immediately told that she would need open-heart surgery ... ‘We have to crack your chest and we will disconnect ...

The Duchess International Hospital, Lagos, says it has successfully performed a complex open-heart surgery on a five-year-old boy who was born with a life-threatening congenital heart condition known ...

Keyhole heart surgery involves making small incisions in the chest as opposed to the breastbone as in traditional open heart surgery. The surgeon accesses the heart through the incisions ...

CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital — New Braunfels offers a minimally invasive heart valve procedure called transcatheter mitral valve repair, or MitraClip which can serve as an alternative option to ...