Dr. Goya Raikar has spent much of his career taking the “open” out of open-heart surgery. As Chief Cardiac Surgeon at ...

Heart surgery may seem daunting, but even experienced surgeons remain amazed by the body's resilience. Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Jeremy London explains how the heart can restart after surgery, how ...

The human body has the ability to do remarkable things. During complicated procedures like heart surgery, it does things that ...

Deaconess Hospital’s new hybrid room gives surgeons a good look into your heart before they operate, helping them figure out the least invasive method to treat patients. Vascular surgeon Dr. Jaideep ...

The new centers are drawing profitable procedures from outpatient departments in hospitals to lower-cost venues.

Dr. John Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine and used it to perform the world’s first successful open-heart surgery on May 6, 1953. Dr. John Gibbon was a researcher and surgeon at Jefferson Medical ...

In patients experiencing excessive bleeding during cardiac surgery, a concentrated blood product containing proteins that help the blood clot was significantly more effective and caused fewer adverse ...