Washington State University researchers have developed a 3D-printed model of the left side of the heart that contracts and beats, offering the chance for surgeons and medical students to rehearse ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow during ...

SEATTLE — Deep in a chest opened by surgical saw and knife, a scalpel carefully cuts a tiny hole in a major artery on the side of the beating heart. Blood spews in a pencil-lead-thin stream but stops ...

PITTSBURGH (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- As many as half a million people in the U.S. undergo coronary artery bypass surgery every year -- but some older patients, or those with other medical conditions, may ...

A landmark study led by Prof. Michael P. Vallely, MBBS, PhD, FRACS, of Sydney Heart and Lung Surgeons and the University of Sydney will be published in the February 28, 2017 issue of the Journal of ...

RACINE -Ê Within a few hours of heart surgery last week, 68-year-old Barna Bencs of Racine was back on his feet at St. Mary's Medical Center, amazed at how good he felt. He and his family weren't the ...