The progress in cardiac surgery has opened up treatment choices for people with very different heart conditions. What once ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (Valley News Live) - February is American Heart Month. The goal is raising awareness that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US, and it’s largely preventable. Valley ...

Most 17-year-olds are sleeping at 7 a.m. on a weekday, but Anna Gabrielle Geneblazo was wide awake watching 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 ...

With significant advancements in heart treatment, the days of open-heart surgery as the only option for complex heart conditions are mostly behind us. Today, minimally invasive procedures can be used ...

Mother Martha Penturf holds her 4.5-month-old son Atlas, who had open heart surgery in November performed by Dr. Kristine J. Guleserian, as nurse practitioner Casey Cox opens his shirt showing his ...