Background Marfan syndrome (MFS) is associated with progressive aortic and valvular disease requiring cardiac surgery, but ...
Every year, more than 12,000 Australians undergo open heart surgery—an hours-long medical procedure during which surgeons go inside the chest cavity and repair faulty heart valves or bypass blocked ...
A 92-year-old woman, deemed too frail for open-heart surgery due to severe heart failure, has regained her mobility and ...
A YEAR AGO, amid media reports questioning the quality and safety of our cardiac surgery program, I asked the Board of Trustees of Catholic Medical Center (CMC) to conduct a comprehensive ...
Patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) had greater morbidity and extended hospitalization when they underwent cardiac surgery. The researchers used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to collect data for ...
As many as 12 percent of patients undergoing major, non-cardiac surgery experience an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation. Post-operative atrial fibrillation (POAF) often is dismissed as a ...
Connecticut State Police Trooper Joe O’Connell had already seen his share of health issues when his wife insisted he report ...
Conducted between Guyana and India, using an India-developed robotic system, the procedure is being described as the ...
Colchicine does not significantly reduce perioperative atrial fibrillation (AF) or myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) in patients undergoing major non-cardiac thoracic surgery, ...