The CME article (1) provides a risky recommendation for patients after cardiac surgery involving sternotomy in Table 4. The table says that after cardiac surgery, patients are fit to drive 2–4 ...

Dr. Nguyen serves as chief medical executive, director of minimally invasive valve surgery and Barry T. Katzen medical director endowed chair at the institute, which is part of Miami-based Baptist ...

A WOMAN’S chests pains were dismissed as anxiety and she was told to do yoga and meditation. But 18 months after being fobbed ...

During this operation, the surgeon will make an incision, called a median sternotomy, in your chest and through the breastbone. They will remove the defective valve and replace it with either a tissue ...

Saskia Clark was diagnosed with cancer after doctors initially thought her long working hours were making her unwell ...

CABG can often be combined with and performed at the same time as other open-heart surgery, such as repairing or replacing a heart valve ... During this operation, the surgeon will make an incision, ...

“With robot-assisted cardiac surgery, we estimate that within three weeks, our patients can go back to their work. But for those who undergo full sternotomy, it will take three months—with six ...

In 1992 Professor Angelini was appointed to the British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiac Surgery in the University of Bristol, and when the Bristol Heart Institute was opened in October 1995, he ...

This sets it apart from conventional open-heart surgery that requires a sternotomy – a large incision through the chest bone ...

Finally the second heart sound may be reduced in intensity ... a novel way to replace a diseased aortic valve without a median sternotomy. The first human TAVR was performed by Dr.