In a world-first, a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, has successfully performed a coronary artery bypass - a normally open-heart ...

Open-heart surgery is a general term that refers to any surgery where a surgeon accesses the heart by opening the chest. They will make an incision in the chest and then cut through the breastbone and ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The vertical scar on Anastasia Allen’s chest comes with more history than the 38-year-old would hope. Ten years ago, a blood infection led to her losing a leg and one of her heart ...

In March 2025, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas, performed the first fully robotic heart transplant to take place in the United States. The operation avoided a ...