The advancements of minimally invasive cardiac surgery for seniors often give them a better chance for a speedy recovery, as ...

A first rib resection is a surgery to remove your first rib. Thoracic surgeons offer this surgery to treat thoracic outlet syndrome. Thoracic outlet syndrome is compression of the nerves or blood ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) - along with its charitable arm, The Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF), recently awarded $125,000 in fellowship grants to five standout cardiothoracic surgeons ...

The UAB Department of Surgery is honored to welcome five faculty members in the month of September: Drs. Juliet Blaskeslee-Carter, Michael “Frank” Gleason, Luis Hidalgo, Victoria Huynh, and Erin White ...

ROCKFORD — Mercyhealth recently welcomed Dr. Anastasios K. Konstantakos, a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon, to its staff at the Mercyhealth Heart and Vascular Center–Rockford. Konstantakos is a ...

We welcome Sulaiman Hasan, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing with Albany Cardiothoracic Surgeons, the Capital Region’s oldest heart surgery practice and the exclusive provider of cardiac ...

WORCESTER, MA — UMass Memorial Health announced the appointment of Dr. James Barnard as Chief of Cardiac Surgery at UMass ...

The Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery is dedicated to educating the next generation of cardiac and thoracic surgeons, which has culminated in a program whose success can be measured by the caliber of ...

Every year, more than 12,000 Australians undergo open heart surgery—an hours-long medical procedure during which surgeons go ...

Dr. Africa Wallace, director of thoracic surgery at Capital Health, has been appointed as president of the Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society (ECTSS), and is the first Black female to occupy the ...

Allen Hughes’ chest pain was intense — a tearing, ripping, shearing sensation that left him gasping for breath as he lay in the University Medical Center emergency room. “He was changing in front of ...