Category Archives: Cardiac Surgery

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) Ten-year-old Brady Kellerman was a healthy kid, with no major medical history, until the fourth of July of last year. I was playing with my friends at my cousins house, and I kept jumping in the water and I kind of felt weird, so I just sat down for a little bit, and then I passed out, and my mom had to do CPR, said Brady. Brady ended up going into cardiac arrest that day. Continue reading →

Rancho Mirage, CA (December 16, 2021) Eisenhower Health is the FIRST hospital in California to be recognized by Edwards Lifesciences for completing its Edwards Benchmark program for the treatment of aortic stenosis in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The standard treatment for aortic stenosis (a narrowing of the aortic valve opening) has been valve replacement through open-heart surgery. Continue reading →

Newswise A team of cardiac experts at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center joined forces recently to save the life of a critically ill man with advanced heart failure. Continue reading →

Today, the experts are discussing mitral valve disease, and how a minimally invasive procedure he pioneered to repair the valve, is helping patients get back to their active lives. The advertiser paid a fee to promote this sponsored article and may have influenced or authored the content. The views expressed in this article are those of the advertiser and do not necessarily reflect those of this site or affiliated companies. Continue reading →

Erlanger Heart and Lung Institute has earned a distinguished three-star rating from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons for patient care and outcomes in aortic valve replacement combined with coronary artery bypass grafting. Continue reading →

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1. Good and Bad News in Obesity A sobering research letter in November reported that 1 in 3 young adults in the United States are obese. The pandemic intensified the importance of combating obesity, as the risk for severe COVID-19 has a linear relationship with body mass index. Continue reading →

Children and youth will soon have shorter wait times for some surgeries thanks to a new partnership between the IWK Health Centre and Scotia Surgery. Starting in February, IWK surgeons and anesthesiologists will perform some less-complex procedures at Scotia Surgery in Dartmouth, with the clinics nurses. Continue reading →

December 16, 2021 Datascope/Getinge/Maquet has recalled the Cardiosave Hybrid and Cardiosave Rescue Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) systems because of one death and 71 complaints reported about fluid leaks. Continue reading →

Skip to main content A new clinical trial being led by the University of Birmingham and funded by the British Heart Foundation could help improve the recovery of children who undergo life-saving heart surgery. The 570,000 study will compare two ways of protecting the heart when children require open heart surgery to repair congenital heart defects, to find which is most effective. Congenital heart disease is a heart defect that develops in the womb before a baby is born Continue reading →