Four teams were assembled at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute to save a mother. — -- In any emergency medical procedure, doctors are quick to make a plan and jump into action. But for the ...

The first time Mesfin Yana Dollar assisted with an open-heart surgery, his patient was a teenage girl from Ethiopia. She was scared and crying. He went to her bedside at Emory University Hospital in ...

Fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, and confusion are just a few of the emotions patients and their caregivers navigate before, during, and after open-heart surgery. “The emotional and mental health ...

Petersburg, Va.-based Southside Regional Medical Center has received state approval to open an open-heart surgery program that would provide bypass surgery and heart valve repair services, according ...

The Neighbors were Angry that her and her wife wouldn’t clean this area up but her Wife just had open heart surgery and she just had a heart attack, Neighbor just came over asking when she was going ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Chesapeake Regional Healthcare is marking a major milestone. The health system has now performed 100 open-heart surgeries and counting, less than three years after establishing the ...

Bret Baier shares an update with PEOPLE one year after his 17-year-old son Paul's fifth open heart surgery. Paul was born with five congenital heart defects, and had his first surgery right after he ...

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- When a child undergoes an operation of any sort, it can be a traumatic experience for the entire family. A new piece of medical technology at Valley Children's Hospital is ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Some people who are special to us can oftentimes make us feel different things. Locke Keller's energy lights up a room — that's how his Mom, Mandy Keller, describes her bundle of ...

Today, Brooks Klingsporn is a happy 1-and-a-half-year-old baby. However, he's already had more heart surgeries than most people get in a lifetime — including one before he was even born. Last year, ...

There are many times when it is inappropriate to tweet. At dinner, for one. In the middle of a movie. And, in most cases, open heart surgery. Dr. Paresh Patel, however, had a good reason to tweet ...