With significant advancements in heart treatment, the days of open-heart surgery as the only option for complex heart conditions are mostly behind us. Today, minimally invasive procedures can be ...

Runner gets open-heart surgery after childhood congenital heart defect surgery. Feb. 6, 2013— -- Like many relatively recent college graduates, Jane Lee wasn't always on top of her doctor's ...

In this case, while the baby was mid-delivery, doctors needed to perform open-heart surgery, fixing the communication between the baby's two sides of the heart, and then continue with delivery.

And I’m not ready to die.” Grant started regularly swimming following her open-heart surgery and now says she’s “in the best shape I had been in in a long time, maybe 20 years.” ...

When Megan Wild delivered her son Luciano, she experienced not only childbirth but also a medical first. During her delivery, doctors performed open heart surgery on Luciano in the first ...