Everly Backe, who was born with a congenital heart defect, was just 3 days old when she had her first open-heart surgery These parents found a very special way to honor their 4-year-old daughter.

Eric Peck, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, says the Alpha Vac system can cut heart patients' recovery time from months to hours. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Open heart ...

After six open-heart surgeries and a rare procedure, 13-year-old Aiden Jeffus now has a fully functioning heart and a future his family once feared he'd never see.

Since Elexa was the Free Care Fund Junior Co-Host in 2017, she's graduated high school and college and is now in medical school.

Kimmel’s 7-year-old son Billy underwent his third open heart surgery last month. The lead surgeon who performed all three heart surgeries on Jimmy Kimmel’s son Billy at the Children’s Hospital Los ...

When Megan Wild delivered her son Luciano, she experienced not only childbirth but also a medical first. During her delivery, doctors performed open heart surgery on Luciano in the first successful ...

Upper St. Clair students learn from a member of Allegheny General Hospital’s surgery team while surgeons perform open heart surgery, viewable up close on the screen. Dr. George Magovern, who pushed ...

Four teams were assembled at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute to save a mother. — -- In any emergency medical procedure, doctors are quick to make a plan and jump into action. But for the ...

Open heart surgery is an incision that is made through the sternum, otherwise known as the breastbone, which is then spread apart. This form of opening is called a full or median sternotomy. Following ...

With her husband recovering in the ICU after surgery, Victoria Thornton received a phone call in the middle of the night informing her she was going to be the recipient of a kidney.