The unconventional method could be the future of heart surgeries.

Cincinnati, OH - Patients undergoing cardiac surgery in their eighties have higher risks of in-hospital death and other severe complications compared with those who are younger simply because of their ...

A patient who needed lifesaving heart surgery has become the first person ever to receive a coronary artery bypass without ...

Patients undergoing cardiac surgery often receive red-cell transfusions, along with the associated risks and costs. Early intraoperative normovolemic hemodilution (i.e., acute normovolemic ...

Dual antiplatelet therapy after heart bypass surgery is not more effective than aspirin alone - and it increases the risk of excessive bleeding. This has now been shown in a study of 2,201 patients at ...

Australians undergoing open-heart surgery could soon benefit from safer, simpler care and get home earlier thanks to the ...

A newborn's heart will grow roughly 15 times larger in volume by the time adulthood is reached — a remarkable transformation ...