A team has developed a plastic surgical field expansion plate that can help surgeons during robot-assisted heart surgery. Robot-assisted heart surgery usually requires an assistant at the ...

Robot-assisted heart surgery usually requires an assistant ... develop the surgical field expansion plate made from a type of plastic used for medical implants and the aerospace industry.

This kind of blind surgery—or closed heart surgery—spread to hospitals around the world. Impressive as the technique was, it made little difference to patients suffering from more serious ...

The surgical field expansion plate, which is composed of a type of plastic used for medical implants and the aerospace ...

making it difficult for blood and oxygen to reach the muscles of the heart. Coronary bypass surgery is one treatment option to help restore blood flow, when other surgical procedures may not be ...

The results of a new clinical trial have overturned the “wait and see” approach that cardiologists have long favored for symptom-free patients. By Benjamin Mueller For decades, people with ...

R&B singer SZA is known to wear her heart on her sleeve — in her music and in real life. And she recently opened up about one ...

The Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine Thoracic Surgery (Independent) Fellowship Program has a pioneering tradition and a continuing spirit of innovation in cardiothoracic surgery. The ...

The cardiothoracic surgery program at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine was the first to perform open heart surgery in Missouri and continues to be a leader in cardiothoracic care. Our ...