Some of the most advanced thoracic surgeries are now being performed at AdventHealth Daytona Beach thanks to the expertise of the hospital’s specialized team led by Patrick Mangonon, MD, and the da ...

During a coronary artery bypass, the diseased sections of your coronary arteries are bypassed with healthy artery or vein grafts to increase blood flow to the heart muscle tissue. This procedure is ...

Open heart surgery is a way to treat heart disease. To do it, your doctor opens your chest wall, cuts through your sternum, and spreads your ribs to get access to the heart. Open heart surgery is ...

The mere idea of heart surgery is enough to give anyone the shakes. Open-heart surgery used to be hard years ago. It had a long incision down the chest, weeks in the hospital, and a difficult recovery ...

Waco Cardiology Associates has teamed with the Heart Hospital at Ascension Providence to transform the more complicated open-chest procedure to a catheter approach similar to that used for stents and ...

MAYWOOD, Ill. – An estimated 60,000 Americans are walking around with time bombs in their chests called thoracic aortic aneurysms. At any time, their main chest artery could suddenly burst open, ...

Pune: A resident of Pune was recently discharged from hospital after undergoing his fourth open-heart surgery during which doctors claimed to have kept his chest open for 24 hours to control bleeding.

Of the two heart valve surgeries Janice Smith has had at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, the second was much easier for her. "I had a good experience both times," the 86-year-old said. "It's just that ...

GOOCHLAND, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A 7-year-old Virginia girl is thriving months after undergoing open-heart surgery for a congenital heart defect. Millie Haenlein, a second grader at Goochland ...