Some of the most advanced thoracic surgeries are now being performed at AdventHealth Daytona Beach thanks to the expertise of the hospital’s specialized team led by Patrick Mangonon, MD, and the da ...

Open heart surgery is a way to treat heart disease. To do it, your doctor opens your chest wall, cuts through your sternum, and spreads your ribs to get access to the heart. Open heart surgery is ...

Robotic surgery for lung cancer involves using a camera that provides a detailed view of the inside of a person’s chest. The term “robotic” can be misleading, as it is not a robot that performs the ...

Doctors from Military Hospital 175 in Ho Chi Minh City have successfully performed the first open-chest surgery at the Truong ...

Waco Cardiology Associates has teamed with the Heart Hospital at Ascension Providence to transform the more complicated open-chest procedure to a catheter approach similar to that used for stents and ...

The mere idea of heart surgery is enough to give anyone the shakes. Open-heart surgery used to be hard years ago. It had a long incision down the chest, weeks in the hospital, and a difficult recovery ...

In the United States, cardiovascular health is especially important. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and as many as 1.5 million people have been diagnosed with aortic stenosis ...

Pune: A resident of Pune was recently discharged from hospital after undergoing his fourth open-heart surgery during which doctors claimed to have kept his chest open for 24 hours to control bleeding.