Transit Officer Paul DeGeorge thought his son was lying on him. Then he realized something much scarier was happening.

Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart. This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours. Recovery from open heart surgery may take 4-6 ...

The mere idea of heart surgery is enough to give anyone the shakes. Open-heart surgery used to be hard years ago. It had a long incision down the chest, weeks in the hospital, and a difficult recovery ...

Open heart surgery is a way to treat heart disease. To do it, your doctor opens your chest wall, cuts through your sternum, and spreads your ribs to get access to the heart. Open heart surgery is ...

Four-year-old Everly Backe underwent her first open heart surgery just three days after she was born. In her four years of life, she has undergone eight medical procedures at Advocate Children's ...