Doctors have completed the world’s first cross-border robot-assisted heart surgery more than 10,000 kilometers away.

A new way to help more heart surgery patients survive, thrive and get back home faster is the aim of a new WakeMed initiative that’s attracted national attention. The new ERAS (enhanced recovery after ...

An earlier blood transfusion- done when hemoglobin levels were higher - after major general or vascular surgery among people with heart disease was associated with a lower risk of some complications ...

Another patient has died after an open-heart surgery procedure at York (Pa.) Hospital, bringing the total number of patient deaths tied to a rare bacterial infection to five, according to a York Daily ...

Heart surgery patients get blood drawn so often that they sometimes develop hospital-acquired anemia, according to a study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. All too often, healthcare ...

An early liberal strategy of blood transfusion did not reduce the risk of mortality or major ischemic events after vascular ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a pioneering method to mend damaged hearts without open-heart surgery, an advance that could one day transform the treatment of heart failure.

In this case, the doctors opted for a minimally invasive procedure using a 35 mm Myval valve, which was inserted through an ...

NORTH TEXAS (KTVT) — A three-time heart surgery patient is going from counting his days to making his days count by volunteering at the hospital that saved his life three times. Joe Wells had a “widow ...