Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart. This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours. Recovery from open heart surgery may take 4-6 ...

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 ...

A 47-year old woman went to the hospital with chest pain and shortness of breath. When she arrived, doctors discovered a wire that had been left behind from a previous surgery four years ago. The ...

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 ...

In the United States, cardiovascular health is especially important. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and as many as 1.5 million people have been diagnosed with aortic stenosis ...

Bob Siemer, a heart disease survivor, defied medical expectations by undergoing a groundbreaking procedure after multiple ...