The advancements of minimally invasive cardiac surgery for seniors often give them a better chance for a speedy recovery, as ...

A first rib resection is a surgery to remove your first rib. Thoracic surgeons offer this surgery to treat thoracic outlet syndrome. Thoracic outlet syndrome is compression of the nerves or blood ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) - along with its charitable arm, The Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF), recently awarded $125,000 in fellowship grants to five standout cardiothoracic surgeons ...

MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Saddleback Medical Center has added Asad Shah, MD, and Timothy Lee, MD. Dr. Shah is a cardiothoracic surgeon with clinical interests in thoracic aortic ...

St. Helena Hospital’s cardiac surgery team recently performed an experimental heart procedure that was the first of its kind ...

The UAB Department of Surgery is honored to welcome five faculty members in the month of September: Drs. Juliet Blaskeslee-Carter, Michael “Frank” Gleason, Luis Hidalgo, Victoria Huynh, and Erin White ...

Recent findings may be relevant to discussions with patients and their families about the pros and cons of cardiac surgery.

ROCKFORD — Mercyhealth recently welcomed Dr. Anastasios K. Konstantakos, a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon, to its staff at the Mercyhealth Heart and Vascular Center–Rockford. Konstantakos is a ...

Every year, more than 12,000 Australians undergo open heart surgery—an hours-long medical procedure during which surgeons go ...

Dr. Africa Wallace, director of thoracic surgery at Capital Health, has been appointed as president of the Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society (ECTSS), and is the first Black female to occupy the ...