Ventricular resection is a type of open-heart surgery to reshape and resize the heart. The surgery may help to improve survival in people with heart failure. Ventricular resection is a surgical ...

Marriage may be good for the heart in more ways than one. According to a new study, married adults who undergo heart surgery are three times more likely than single people to survive the three months ...

An estimated 4.2 million people die within 30 days of surgery worldwide each year. A new study, published in the European Heart Journal today (Thursday), suggests that deaths and serious heart disease ...

When the main arteries of the heart become clogged, the heart finds it hard to receive sufficient oxygen-rich blood. This can cause pain in the chest, heart attack, or even instantaneous death. In ...

Women over the age of 65 who require complex heart surgery are more likely than men to receive care at low quality hospitals—where they also die in greater numbers following the procedure, a Michigan ...