Recovering from surgery for a widow maker—a severe heart attack caused by blockage of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery—requires careful attention to physical, emotional, and mental health.

Minimally invasive heart surgery reduces recovery time to six weeks versus twelve weeks for open-heart surgery.

Mercy Health has adopted a new technique called Keep Your Move In The Tube, which allows open heart surgery patients to move more freely and with less pain, reducing the need for strong pain ...

Recovery from widowmaker heart surgery, which addresses blockages in the left anterior descending (LAD) artery, requires dedicated rehabilitation efforts. Whether recovering from coronary artery ...

This article describes the positive impact that actively managing functional recovery has on postacute placement for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. Objective: To describe the ...

Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart. This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours. Recovery from open heart surgery may take 4-6 ...

A life-saving heart procedure offering an alternative to traditional open-heart surgery is now available to patients in Palm Beach County ...

An 11-year-old girl is giving thanks to her Maryland medical team after surgery to repair a hole in her heart.

Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...