As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

Four teams were assembled at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute to save a mother. — -- In any emergency medical procedure, doctors are quick to make a plan and jump into action. But for the ...

A coroner said in a report that Jean Dye, 77, “would have survived” if the operating room didn’t lose power Getty Jean Dye, 77, went into surgery for a stent in order to treat an underlying heart ...

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 ...

Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

As Korea prepares to enforce a new Nursing Act, veteran perfusionists who help stop and restart hearts during surgery face legal uncertainty, putting the future of critical cardiac operations and ...