Category Archives: Cardiac Surgery

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Heart surgery can be intimidating. But with advancements in medical science, it has become routine and safer than ever before. Continue reading →

The Mangans hurriedly piled Jack and his 1-year-old brother, Declan, in their SUV and drove to Childrens, with Amy Mangans parents following in another car. Continue reading →

On a bright day inMay 1953, American surgeon John Gibbon performed the first ever successful open-heart operation with a heart-lung machine, which he and his wife Mary had developed. Continue reading →

Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC), an RWJBarnabas Health facility, is among few world-class facilities in the region to use a highly specialized approach for a cardiac procedure. While the femoral approach is the most common way to access the heart for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), recent advancements have introduced alternative access sites Continue reading →

/local-news 1 / 4 Tim Lynch of Washington is a patient at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, awaiting a dual heart-liver transplant. 2 / 4 Some of the members of Tim Lynchs support system are, from left, son Alexander, 12, wife Kristen and son Benjamin, 8. 3 / 4 Tim Lynch had his first open heart surgery just 10 hours after he was born Continue reading →

ALIGARH :The cardiothoracic surgeons at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University have done a bypass surgery using minimal invasive technique for the first time in western Uttar Pradesh. Continue reading →

Dr. Neal Miller The Chattanooga Heart Institute welcomes Neal Miller, MD, cardiologist, and Vanessa Miller, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon Continue reading →

This study is the largest single center retrospective cohort in Europe with Impella-RP for patients with RVF after cardiac surgery. We evaluated which factors provided an approximation of right ventricular function in the postoperative period. Due to the lack of a consensus definition of RVF, and the fact that RVF mechanisms have not been well defined9, we evaluated liver function and assessed catecholamine variability as a noninvasive hemodynamic prediction metric Continue reading →

image: The numbers of wins, losses and ties for all pairs of patients at each level of the win ratio hierarchy are shown, as well as the method for calculation of the win ratio (number of wins in the shunt group divided by number of ties in the shunt group). The unadjusted win ratio was then adjusted for the numbers of pairs of patients examined before vs. Continue reading →