Heart & Vascular Institute at Long Beach Medical Center plays a unique role in treating valve disease patients not often seen ...

Professional societies agreed that U.S. centers performing pediatric and congenital heart surgery should be formally reorganized into two tiers with volume requirements designed to maintain surgical ...

Do all heart valve replacements need open-heart surgery? Let's know the new techniques that could change everything ...

Is fibrinogen concentrate useful for bleeding in high-risk cardiac surgery? In a study conducted in The Netherlands, [1] 647 patients (from 2011 to 2015) scheduled to have high-risk cardiac surgery ...

Heart surgeons meticulously scrub their hands for precisely one minute before each operation. This scientifically backed ...

A team of surgeons performed a world-first operation that could change the way heart failure patients are treated.

A Savannah teenager is making national medical history after surviving a surgery so rare that only one other person in the country has ever recovered well enough to leave the hospital. 18-year-old ...

Many patients may need a second procedure, once known to be risky and complex. However, new tools, better techniques and daily lifestyle habits can improve outcomes and reduce the chances of needing ...

Healthline contributor and former editor David Mills shares how an annual checkup with his cardiologist resulted in a surprising diagnosis that required open-heart surgery. Share on Pinterest “I ...

Two inhaled pulmonary vasodilators worked similarly in preventing postoperative right ventricular (RV) failure after major cardiac surgery for advanced heart failure, according to a randomized study, ...

LISBON, Portugal—Patients who undergo a cardiac prehabilitation prior to elective surgery or procedures via a smartphone app have a lower incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) ...

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 breastbone and ...