Chesapeake Regional Healthcare celebrates 100 open-heart surgeries and counting

Chesapeake Regional Healthcare is marking a major milestone. The health system has now performed 100 open-heart surgeries and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Baby With Severe Heart Defect Saved by 'Mind-Blowing' In-Utero Heart Surgery

Brooks Klingsporn received a cutting-edge in-utero cardiac surgery while in the womb to treat a life-threatening heart defect ...

Open heart surgery: Clinicians don't know the best way to support patients with post-operative pain, study finds

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

Born with congenital defect, Dutchess County legislator's heartbeat goes on after surgery

Lynne Versaci underwent 11-hour open-heart surgery in August. A group of friends have created a fundraiser event to support her.
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‘My baby’s a fighter’: 8-month-old girl from Central Texas battling leukemia

GATESVILLE, Texas (KWTX) - Kiahaura Mateo is an 8-month-old girl from Gatesville is currently in the hospital battling leukemia. She was diagnosed shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. “This is ...
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‘Nothing can hold me back’: High schooler scores touchdown on 1st play since open-heart surgery

ELKHORN, Neb. (WOWT/Gray News) - A teenager returned to his high school’s football field in Nebraska for the first time since undergoing open-heart surgery. When Jack Burke first lined up at his ...