Dr. Goya Raikar has spent much of his career taking the “open” out of open-heart surgery. As Chief Cardiac Surgeon at ...
SIMS Hospital saved the life of a 65-year-old religious scholar who developed a life-threatening ventricular tachycardia (VT) storm following a complex redo coronary artery bypass grafting. The ...
In a large clinical trial, the device was shown to reduce symptoms and hospitalization for heart failure for patients at high-risk for open-heart surgery. "This new procedure represents a significant ...
He said it has yet to kick in. The Heart Hospital has implanted the new defibrillator in about a dozen patients in the past six months. When it started doing the procedure, it was the only hospital in ...
When medications aren’t doing enough to manage your hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), surgical procedures can offer real relief. HCM is a genetic heart condition in which parts of the heart muscle ...
The world of medicine has seen a fascinating leap forward with the advent of robotic surgeons, now performing heart surgeries at an impressive 99% success rate. This revolutionary development ...