What happens during open-heart surgery? Learn how patients are prepared, what takes place during the operation, what to expect in the ICU and the key stages of recovery after surgery.

This is the first installment of a 3-part series following Selma Davis, a little girl in need of a life-saving heart transplant. Over eight months, The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, was ...

The 6-year-old ran up and down the hall, first to one nurse, then another, to the receptionist and back to her mom. She could ...

A new iScience study combining machine learning on over 6,500 patient records with rat and cell experiments shows that ...

Elder bassist Jack Donovan is recovering after open-heart surgery following a pneumonia hospitalization that forced the band ...

Though Klein had experienced symptoms since childhood, many patients with ACA are asymptomatic until they have a sudden ...

When Ricky Hampton underwent open-heart surgery on Aug. 6, he became the first patient to undergo cardiothoracic surgery at ...

Elder bassist Jack Donovan is recovering at home after undergoing open-heart surgery following a hospitalization initially ...

After waiting nearly eight months, 6-year-old Selma Davis is matched with a life-saving heart donor. Selma was one of the first children to match with a heart preserved with a new technique developed ...

As a national shortage of donor hearts leaves critically ill children waiting, a 6-year-old Nashville girl clings to hope ...

A 67-year-old patient recently received a heart transplant from surgeons operating robotic arms in his chest and making ...

The stent is price-capped, but the rest of the hospital bill is not. Where cardiac claims get trimmed, and what to check in ...