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First-ever high-risk heart bypass performed without opening patient's chest is a success

A patient who needed lifesaving heart surgery has become the first person ever to receive a coronary artery bypass without ...

Health Rounds: First human coronary bypass surgery performed without chest cracking

For the first time ever in a human, doctors have performed coronary artery bypass grafting without having to cut through the ...

First minimally invasive coronary artery bypass achieved

For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery.

World’s First Minimally Invasive Heart Bypass Could Make Open-Heart Surgery a Thing of the Past

The world’s first minimally invasive heart bypass procedure — done without cutting open the chest wall — has been performed ...