Articles for Tag: "open-heart surgery"

Can you exercise after a cardiac event? 
Can you exercise after a cardiac event?
Learn tips for safe and confident physical activity to help heal your heart.
Could this procedure replace open heart surgery? 
Could this procedure replace open heart surgery?
The FDA recently expanded access to the revolutionary practice.
Less invasive heart procedure gets patients back to normal lives  Featured
Less invasive heart procedure gets patients back to normal lives
Just a week after surgery, an 85-year-old exclaims, “I already feel great.”
New technology allows heart patients to undergo procedure without missing a beat 
New technology allows heart patients to undergo procedure without missing a beat
The latest option to replace aortic valves.
Support group empowers women with heart disease  Featured
Support group empowers women with heart disease
A national patient-centered organization offers education and encouragement for heart attack survivors.
A day in the life of a cardiac rehab team 
A day in the life of a cardiac rehab team
Find out what it’s like to be a part of the team that helps patients recover after heart surgery.
Students get rare view into live open-heart surgery 
Students get rare view into live open-heart surgery
Tired of telling your teen to sit up, eat right, don’t smoke, slow down and drive carefully? Perhaps some real face time with a physician performing surgery on an unhealthy heart might get the point across.