Sentences with phrase «open heart surgery in»

I had open heart surgery in 2004 at Toronto General Hospital.

My 13 year old son went in for a check up and we were told we needed to have open heart surgery in the next couple weeks but we had our vacation Planned.

In my introductory remarks I explained that Brian's open heart surgery in April was his fourth such procedure.

I too am on them for 1 1/2 years for chronic recurrent pericarditis, which was a complication following my open heart surgery in 8/12.

They not only welcomed me, and treated me like a valuable person right from the start, but they got me through two of the hardest years of my life, when I had to leave the job I had to take 10 and a half weeks post op from my second open heart surgery in less than a year, (couldn't get disability) and try one more time to get SSDI.

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The company's shares fell as much as 8.1 percent in after - market trading as sales of its premium non-invasive device, used to replace diseased aortic valves without open - heart surgery, is its biggest growth driver.

Kimmel has been vocal about health care since he delivered his heart rending opening monologue in May about his newborn son, Billy, who came into the world with rare condition that required open heart surgery.

Think high schoolers dissecting 3 - D holographic frogs in biology class, or med students watching a virtual open - heart surgery.

Unfortunately humans are also prone to err in more serious situations — like deciding whether or not a patient is in need of open heart surgery.

Remember, most of us in business are not performing open - heart surgery.

No one would explain their preferred open heart surgery technique based on the fact that their dad went under the knife back in 2004, but when it comes to starting and running your own business, everyone from your mother to a recent grad with no experience but dreams of being a blogger feels entitled to offer advice.

For those who might have wondered about my physical, condition, I did have open - heart surgery in July of 1989 followed by a myocardial infarction and a second surgery all on the same day — they cleaned out the old pipes and replaced a few — but within a month of that ordeal I was walking ten miles a day, and now, in the best physical shape I have been in for years, I am running 12 miles a week, so no one need be overly concerned.

For those who come to this study in «first naïveté,» a semester of biblical study resembles open - heart surgery without benefit of anesthesia.

Mr Hawking is a very intelligent man, however, just because he is a genius in math and science, does not mean I would let him perform open heart surgery on anyone.

My son's method of eating for the first several weeks was via IV due to being in an ICU after open - heart surgery.

I'm so grateful that he is doing well after the first in a series of three open - heart surgeries, but his is a future of question marks — a future of medical challenges.

I know from personal experience serving my son pumped breast milk in the hospital after open heart surgery, I really didn't want to throw away any of that precious liquid I had squeezed out of my breasts.

That's 3 open heart surgeries (at a minimum) in the first few years of your babies life, and a lifetime with a single ventricle heart doing the work of both, that could have possibly been prevented.

I always have a hard time reviewing baby bottles, as I never had a need for them other than when my son was in the hospital after open heart surgery.

They made the decision to try again and their son Jude was born in 2012 with a congenital heart defect, requiring open heart surgery at five days old.

«A lot of us just watched Jimmy Kimmel painfully tell the story of his son Billy's open heart surgery,» Gillibrand says in the address.

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 70, reportedly underwent emergency open - heart surgery yesterday due to complications from a related experimental procedure, and is in stable condition.

In Hevesi's defense, his wife is plagued by chronic back pain; has undergone a series of surgeries, including open - heart surgery; and suffers from severe depression.

«A coworker of mine needed emergency open heart surgery and the sick days provided him with a bridge until the disability benefits kicked in,» said Castiglione.

Abdulkadir said Asmau requires an open heart surgery to close the holes in her heart so as to live a normal life.

Never again, they vowed, would the planet be forced to sit by, powerless, while oil execs confessed — after the fact — that stopping a leak at such depths is like performing «open - heart surgery at 5,000 feet in the dark,» as BP America's chairman and president, Lamar McKay, told ABC News about the early attempt to plug the well by triggering the failed blowout preventer.

The findings echo past studies, which have shown patients with multiple narrowed arteries have better outcomes with coronary artery bypass grafting, also known as CABG or heart bypass surgery, than with angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI, a less - invasive option in which a stent is inserted to hold the arteries open.

TAVR is a procedure in which a surgeon threads a replacement valve to the heart mounted on a long, thin tube called a catheter that is placed in the groin or chest, avoiding open - heart surgery.

In recent years, the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, has made the repair safer: Physicians place a new valve in the heart via a catheter inserted through the patient's leg, which results in less injury and an easier recovery than open heart surgerIn recent years, the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, has made the repair safer: Physicians place a new valve in the heart via a catheter inserted through the patient's leg, which results in less injury and an easier recovery than open heart surgerin the heart via a catheter inserted through the patient's leg, which results in less injury and an easier recovery than open heart surgerin less injury and an easier recovery than open heart surgery.

«In the past there weren't any alternatives that we could really offer these types of patients,» said Roger Fan, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Director of Arrhythmia Consult Service, «The LARIAT is a great alternative to the possibility of a lifetime of blood thinners which can have some serious side effects like GI bleeds, as well as an alternative to invasive open - heart surgery.»

«Retrieving a clot from within the heart used to require open - heart surgery, resulting in longer hospitalization, recovery and rehabilitation times compared to the minimally invasive approach provided by the AngioVac system,» said Dr. Murray Kwon, a UCLA cardiothoracic surgeon who collaborated on Dunlap's procedure.

He believes these robotic tools will set a new standard in minimally invasive surgery — and eliminate a good deal of the terrible physical trauma associated with opening the heart.

Parents of children with «critical» congenital heart defects — which require at least one cardiac surgery — are at high risk for mental health problems, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression, according to research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Associaheart defects — which require at least one cardiac surgery — are at high risk for mental health problems, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression, according to research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke AssociaHeart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke AssociaHeart Association / American Stroke Association.

During the nearly month - long follow - up period, there were no differences between the two groups in the percentages of patients that had a stent placed to open an artery, underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, returned to the emergency room or experienced a major cardiac event, such as heart attack.

The study patients received either a minimally invasive TAVR procedure — which uses a catheter that is routed through a blood vessel in the leg or chest to access the heart — or an open - heart surgery to replace the valve.

Some experimental heart attack treatments require surgery to open up the chest, but the two hydrogel materials already in clinical trials are injected into the damaged tissue through a long catheter inserted through the skin — eliminating the need for open - chest surgery.

Using data and follow - up from the first and largest studies of TAVR safety, the research team found that the biologic valves used in a TAVR procedure, as well as those used in open heart surgery, continue to perform well up to five years after implantation.

A minimally invasive procedure used to replace heart valves without open heart surgery appears to provide a durable remedy for people with a life - threatening form of heart disease in which the aortic valve opening narrows, diminishing blood flow.

In this randomized controlled PARTNER 2A trial, outcomes using the SAPIEN XT valve were compared with open - heart surgery valve replacement among 2,032 intermediate - risk patients treated between December 2011 and November 2013 at 57 sites, all but two in the U.S. Patients were randomly assigned; 1,011 to TAVR and 1,021 to surgerIn this randomized controlled PARTNER 2A trial, outcomes using the SAPIEN XT valve were compared with open - heart surgery valve replacement among 2,032 intermediate - risk patients treated between December 2011 and November 2013 at 57 sites, all but two in the U.S. Patients were randomly assigned; 1,011 to TAVR and 1,021 to surgerin the U.S. Patients were randomly assigned; 1,011 to TAVR and 1,021 to surgery.

Patients who underwent open - heart surgery in the afternoon experienced better health outcomes compared to those who got operated on in the morning, study authors found after six years of observing nearly 600 patients who underwent heart valve replacement.

The addition of mitral valve (MV) repair (a valve of the heart) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a type of open - heart surgery, did not result in significant benefit to the patient and was associated with increased risk of neurological events.

It is used in some 50 million cases a year — everything from colonoscopies to cesareans to open - heart surgeries — and nearly 90 percent of the propofol used in the U.S. comes from the E.U..

Worldwide, an estimated 300,000 people have severe aortic stenosis — a faulty valve in the main artery carrying blood out of the heart — and roughly a third of them are deemed unable to withstand the standard treatment of open - heart surgery to replace the valve.

NEW YORK (November 18, 2014)-- The addition of mitral valve (MV) repair (a valve of the heart) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a type of open - heart surgery, did not result in significant benefit to the patient and was associated with increased risk of neurological events.

Previously, studies of stem cell transplants for heart disease have only been performed in patients already scheduled for open heart surgery.

May 24, 2016 Cardiac surgeon Robert Replogle, MD, 1931 - 2016 Robert L. Replogle, MD, a nationally recognized specialist in congenital and open - heart surgery, died at the University of Chicago Medicine on Monday, May 9, surrounded by his family.

We have particular expertise in cardiology, including the state's only open heart surgery program; oncology; neurosciences; orthopedics; organ transplantation; pediatrics; psychiatry and diabetes.

Doctors rushed the «Terminator» star into the operating hall for open - heart surgery, operating for several hours, according to reports in the US entertainment press.

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Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger is in a stable condition after undergoing emergency open - heart surgery, his representatives said Friday, adding that his first words on waking were «I'm back.»