Less than two months before his daughter Lauren's wedding, Tom Koegler underwent a quadruple bypass heart surgery at Loyola University Medical Center. After spending six days in the hospital, Mr.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A new generation of tiny, drug-coated metal scaffolds that prop open arteries has transformed heart care in just a few years and is allowing a growing number of people to avoid having ...

The year was 1975, the place Sydney. Steven Spielberg's Jaws was terrifying movie goers in cinemas, local rock band AC/DC had released its debut album and then-29-year-old John Ross had double bypass ...

Walker Farrington, 7, was diagnosed with congenital heart defects before birth ...

WASHINGON - People with several clogged heart arteries fared better if they had bypass surgery rather than a less drastic procedure in which the blood vessels are propped open with tiny mesh cylinders ...

A treatment option many doctors and patients with heart disease commonly try to avoid might actually be the best one, according to a recent Duke University Medical Center study. Open-heart bypass ...

Rick Chiarelli is undergoing open-heart surgery, it raises a number of questions — not just about the College ward councillor's health, but also about procedural issues at city hall and in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country singer Mark Chesnutt underwent quadruple bypass surgery, which is done to reroute blood flow to the heart when arteries ...

THE DOOR FOR PEOPLE IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY WHO NEED BYPASS SURGERY, BUT ARE NOT CANDIDATES FOR AN OPEN HEART SURGERY. IT’S BEING DONE USING A ROBOT. KCRA 3’S ANAHITA JAFARI SHARES HOW THIS SURGEON ...

Open-heart surgery is a general term that refers to any surgery where a surgeon accesses the heart by opening the chest. They will make an incision in the chest and then cut through the breastbone and ...

Around the world, more than a million angioplasty procedures are performed each year to try to relieve pain in people with blocked heart arteries. The less invasive catheter procedure appears to be ...

Last Tuesday my father-in-law had what he thought was indegestion and was eventually taken to the hospital once it was realized it was probably something more serious.<br><br>Anyway, after spending an ...