"It wasn’t that dramatic,” the 69-year-old said of the surgery Sandra Bernhard said she underwent open-heart surgery The ...

Nine years later, in 2023, she underwent open-heart surgery at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa to repair a damaged mitral valve. As if the shock of having cardiac arrest and needing open-heart ...

By: Marc Sakwa, M.D., chief of cardiovascular surgery, MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute Thanks to advancements in technology and medication, such as lipid-controlling drugs, significant ...

EARLY experiments in open-heart surgery indicated the need for preventing air embolism from the open heart during cardiopulmonary bypass. The studies that were made by Senning 1 and by Glenn and ...