Studies: Elderly fare well in open-heart surgery

Eighty-year-olds with clogged arteries or leaky heart valves used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms. Now more are getting open-heart surgery, with remarkable survival rates rivaling those of much younger people, new studies show.

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"Robin Williams' heart surgery "went extremely well" and he is expected to make a full recovery in eight weeks, according to his surgeon."

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William E. Black, 63, claims that Dr. John B. Weiss failed to properly close his chest incision on Nov. 3, 2006, when he performed aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass surgery on him.

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Pigs Protest Barbara Bush's Pig Valve

Barbara Bush has had a pig valve implanted in her heart. The life-saving surgery has angered animal rights activists who think that the valve was wasted.

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Reece likes turkey deli meat and sleeping with his head on your chest .Reece, now 6 months old, has a heart condition that started as a murmur, just like the type humans develop.

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A revolutionary procedure which will reduce the need for open heart surgery in older people has been conducted for the first time in Australia.

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This guy has saved thousands of lives. This website has his obituary and somewhere to pay your respects.

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Using a surgical robot increases the cost of each bypass case by about $8,000, according to Robert S. Poston, M.D., a cardiac surgeon formerly at the University of Maryland Medical Center who is the lead author of the study

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"The pollsters‚ questioning of Palestinian relatives of children who underwent free heart surgery at Wolfson, found that a vast majority "positively changed their opinions about Israel" as a result. They said that the good deed strengthened mutual trust between the two peoples.

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Suffering from a congenital heart defect since birth, Texas fifth-grader Garrett Ferguson knows firsthand what it means to receive life-saving heart treatment.

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A 14-day-old infant traveling here for heart surgery died at Honolulu International Airport on Friday after he, his mother and a nurse were detained by immigration officials in a locked room, a lawyer for the boy's family said.

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Two grateful children soon will fly thousands of miles home to Mongolia after successful heart surgeries, thanks to the help of a caring St. Petersburg community.

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A two-year-old girl is said to be "back to her normal self" after becoming one of the youngest people in Britain to be fitted with a pacemaker.

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The first U.S. transplant of a beating heart was performed on a 47-year-old Pennsylvania man with congestive heart failure.

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A robotic caterpillar has been designed which can crawl across the surface of the heart to deliver treatment. New Scientist reports a prototype of the HeartLander device, created by US researchers, has been tested on pigs.

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The television personality revealed Monday that he will undergo heart surgery later this week

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This man is a wonder! And at 98, he is back to practicing medicine and passing his years of knowledge on to others. Dr. DeBakey and his wonderful family are a treasure to our community, and this entire planet!!!

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Clifford Geertz, an anthropologist whose imaginative studies of cultural groups from other countries changed the intellectual underpinnings of anthropology and other social sciences, died Oct.

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I have issues with the method of this study. Honestly, I thinkt he results are a statistical anomaly. Nobody should take this as meaning prayer somehow hurts the chance for recovery.

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Warning: The surgeon general may determine that prayer is hazardous to your health. That's what can happen when faith sets out to prove its power through science.

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There have been many articles written in the last week regarding the research study done to measure the effectiveness of prayers for healing.

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