open heart operation
open heart surgery

He performed some 2,000 open heart operations and gave some 400 of his patients artificial heart valves.

There is one Romanian surgeon capable of performing the open heart operation to replace the middle aged woman's valves.

Dr. Nealon was a member of the operative team which performed the first successful open heart operation every performed on a human.

This allowed the first open heart operations on Jehovah's Witnesses, whose religion does not allow them to receive blood or blood products.

The doctor performed, with equal success, all types of surgeries ranging from gynecological procedures and open heart operation to Neurosurgery.

Surgical septal myectomy is an open heart operation done to relieve symptoms in patients who remain severely symptomatic despite medical therapy.

Victory does not perform neurosurgery, cardiac catheterization or open heart operations - procedures that generate large revenues for big referral centers.

On October 29, 1957, at the Vancouver General Hospital, the team successfully performed the first open heart operation in British Columbia.

DeBoer was the hospital's first chief of cardiothoracic surgery, and performed the first open heart operation at Wesley Memorial Hospital in 1958.

Mrs. Minnich's extraordinarily risky surgery was her second open heart operation in seven months for her rare cancer, a type known as fibrous histiocytoma sarcoma.

A patient once told me: "The night before my open heart operation, my surgeon told me I had a 5 percent chance I may die.

Bob Conrad, the dean of Connecticut political writers, for instance, has had two triple-bypass open heart operations and walks three miles several times a week, usually accompanied by his wife, Marian.

As director of surgery at what is known today as the Westchester County Medical Center, Dr. Holliday was credited with performing the first open heart operation in the county in 1959.

Then her husband became ill and had open heart surgery.

The hospital performed its first open heart surgery in 1984.

There, medical personnel are trying to find the cause of death for a woman who died in open heart surgery.

He was 66 and had undergone open heart surgery six weeks ago.

In August 2007, the medical center began performing open heart surgery.

He performed Canada's first successful open heart surgery in 1955.

Later, his open heart surgery became the front page story to friends and acquaintances.

He had open heart surgery during the offseason, but was back by the start of fall practice.

We were there when he came out of open heart surgery, into the intensive care unit.

The baby required open heart surgery after birth but has recovered well, she said.

He had a history of heart problems, including 2008 open heart surgery.

The least common way is post surgically after open heart surgery.

Nixon died of complications following open heart surgery on February 13, 1983.

One morning a man called to inquire about the condition of a patient who was having open heart surgery.

With today's 99 per cent success rate the future for most open heart surgery patients is rosy.

She has had three hip-replacement operations and open heart surgery.

Blalock's work was essential to the development of open heart surgery.

Damage to this nerve during open heart surgery is not uncommon.

The series ended in 1995 following the death of Bennick, after his open heart surgery.

"It wasn't open heart surgery; they went through the arteries," she said today.

The two men agree their chances of survival without open heart surgery were slim.

Then, a physician told them the baby needed open heart surgery as soon as possible.

A heart-lung machine was used in 1953 during a successful open heart surgery.

Sometimes the pericardial fluid is taken during open heart surgery.

He underwent open heart surgery in April 1991 to remove tumors.