CLEVELAND — When one thinks of heart bypass surgery-- a long chest scar, months of recovery, pain and often fear come to mind. Since December, about 55 patients have received a new, robotic approach ...
Minimally invasive heart bypass surgery using a DaVinci robot means a shorter hospital stay and faster recovery for patients, as well as fewer complications and a better chance that the new bypass ...
SHREVEPORT, La. — CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier is celebrating a cardiac milestone. On Thursday, Christus cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon Dr. Timothy Danish and the Christus surgical heart team ...
SHREVEPORT, La. — Retired Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton found that he was slowing down. Usually spry and full of energy, Sexton was told it was his heart. “I had just got to where I just didn't ...
Shreveport, La.-based Christus Highland Medical Center completed the facility's first minimally invasive robotic-assisted heart surgery on Dec. 16. Timothy Danish, MD, cardiovascular and thoracic ...
Filmmaker Roshan Abbas shares his life-saving experience with robotic heart surgery. He had seven blockages but no prior ...
At 54, Brian DeMario was in disbelief. Just a month earlier, the Munster resident was hiking the Smoky Mountains, nearly 6,000 feet above sea level. Now he was hearing the words, double bypass heart ...
Imagine you're on vacation in the Florida Keys, and days later, you're being rushed for emergency heart surgery in Miami. A woman thought she pulled a muscle, but what happened next, she's calling a ...
When it comes to surgical incisions, the smaller and less intrusive they are, the better off patients are likely to be. And surgeons are becoming more and more creative about getting to internal ...
CHICAGO – A system that allows surgeons to perform laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery from a remote console, controlling up to three robotic arms and a binocular camera, was successfully tested in 10 ...
Adnan Siddiqui, MD, PhD, recently used a proprietary robotics system to perform the world’s first microsurgical intracranial brain surgeries.