Millie was born with a congenital heart defect and has to quarantine to avoid getting sick before having major heart surgery.

Dr. Goya Raikar has spent much of his career taking the “open” out of open-heart surgery. As Chief Cardiac Surgeon at ...

Almost four weeks after The Wynn Hospital paused its open-heart-surgery program, there is no word on when the surgeries will again be available in Utica. The Mohawk Valley Health System has hired an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The vertical scar on Anastasia Allen’s chest comes with more history than the 38-year-old would hope. Ten years ...

HOUSTON — We have an update on Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale's open heart surgery. A spokesperson released a statement at 1:40 p.m. on Tuesday and said McIngvale, 73, is out of surgery and "doing well ...

As a super-fit Olympic medallist, I always felt a bit of a fraud as I sat in the cardiology unit waiting for my annual check-up, surrounded by people who were clearly very ill. I was 11 when I was ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it required open heart surgery to fix. But now ...

Former PGA Championship winner Davis Love III is recovering at home after undergoing open-heart surgery last week. Love, 60, underwent surgery to replace a “leaky valve” on Jan. 21 and was released ...

Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale was hospitalized over the Labor Day weekend. Local furniture store owner and personality Jim ‘Mattress Mack' McIngvale announced this week that he will soon undergo ...

A new minimally invasive procedure replaces a damaged heart valve through a small neck incision, potentially allowing patients to recover faster than with traditional open-heart surgery.