For decades, treating a severely damaged heart valve or certain structural heart defects often meant open-heart surgery, a chest incision, a heart-lung machine and a lengthy recovery. Today, advances ...

FOR THE FIRST time, doctors have successfully completed a coronary artery bypass without cutting the patient open. They recently documented the results of the landmark surgery in Circulation: ...

A septal myectomy is an open-heart operation that removes the portion of thickened heart muscle blocking blood flow. During ...

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 ...

Since birth, she faced what many people never expect to encounter in their lifetime: multiple open-heart surgeries. What began as a serious and life-altering diagnosis became a journey marked by ...

Healthline contributor and former editor David Mills shares how an annual checkup with his cardiologist resulted in a surprising diagnosis that required open-heart surgery. Share on Pinterest “I ...

When a 47-year-old woman showed up to the hospital in the United Arab Emirates with shortness of breath, chest pain and swelling in her feet and legs, doctors suspected something might be wrong with ...

A coronary artery bypass is one of several types of open-heart surgeries, which are major medical procedures. Open-heart surgery is a group of procedures that involve cutting through the breastbone to ...

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 ...