Thoracic aneurysm open surgery is a treatment for a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a bulge in your aorta. The aorta, your body’s largest blood vessel, begins at your heart and extends into your ...

Open heart surgery is a way to treat heart disease. To do it, your doctor opens your chest wall, cuts through your sternum, and spreads your ribs to get access to the heart. Open heart surgery is ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. --The total hospital cost of mitral valve repair surgery -- from the time a patient is admitted to the hospital until release --is similar, whether performed through small port ...

PeriCor, a company co-founded by mechanical engineering PhD student Justin Opfermann, has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health.

A man, 22, had a cough for weeks due to a tumor compressing the tube that carries air into his lung. Doctors did open-chest surgery to remove the tumor, which was almost 7-inches long. According to ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A catheter-based procedure that uses a clothespin-like device threaded ...

Fred Hutch surgeons use the full range of surgical techniques to remove cancer, and they have access to state-of-the-art medical technology for their surgeries. Minimally invasive surgery, such as ...

Heart valves can be replaced with open heart surgery or with less invasive procedures that don’t require your chest to be opened. Known as transcatheter valve replacement, this type of procedure has ...

Dillon Schultz walked into University Medical Center earlier this month for his fourth pulmonary-valve replacement. Four days and one Tylenol later, the 18-year-old was back in class at summer school.

Colonel Phan Dinh Mung, Deputy Director of Military Hospital 175, said the successful emergency operation on a patient with serious chest injuries reflected the effective coordination between the ...