The Hyderabad-based CARE Hospital has conducted a rare robotically assisted Mitral Valve replacement surgery on a 23 year old patient. Traditionally open-heart surgery is performed by cutting through the breast bone. The Hospital claims it to be the country's first such surgery.
Vascular surgeons at Boulder Community Hospital have started using a new type of heart valve repair surgery that requires only a four inch incision and has shorter recovery times.
New Delhi, Oct 3: Highlighting the problems associated with heart surgery, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam suggested on Tuesday that research work should focus on creating non-invasive treatment for cardiac patients.
New Delhi, Oct. 3 (ANI): Highlighting the problems associated with heart surgery, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam suggested on Tuesday that research work should focus on creating non-invasive treatment for cardiac patients.
Investigators today presented new renal, mortality and safety data from the NAPA(Nesiritide Administered Peri-Anesthesia in Patients Undergoing CardiacSurgery) trial, a Scios Inc.-sponsored study that evaluated NATRECOR(R)(nesiritide) in heart failure patients who required coronary artery bypassgraft (CABG) surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass. [click link for full article]