A patient who needed lifesaving heart surgery has become the first person ever to receive a coronary artery bypass without ...

For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery.

The world’s first minimally invasive heart bypass procedure — done without cutting open the chest wall — has been performed ...

PLAINSBORO, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Heart bypass surgery: What used to be an extraordinary procedure for clogged arteries is now done more than a thousand times a day. And it's still a powerful fix for ...

Trial findings suggest that the less invasive approach to heart bypass surgery offers comparable safety and efficacy to established methods and that safety issues inherent to invasive catheterisation ...

Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

WYNEWOOD, Pa. (CBS) -- Robotic heart bypass surgery is becoming more popular, and a leading pioneer in the minimally invasive operation is in Montgomery County. Lankenau Medical Center has been ...

(BPT) - For the hundreds of thousands of Americans who undergo heart bypass surgery each year, the relief of surviving such a major procedure is often shadowed by one sobering fact: The risk of ...

A retired HGV driver was the first person in the world to take part in a clinical trial to extend the lifespan of blood ...