Women and men experience similar rates of dangerous complications after a major heart surgery.So why are women dyin ...

Despite having no greater chance of developing problems after high risk cardiovascular surgery, women are more likely than ...

"We really have to stop treating women as if they were small men," a surgeon says in response to a study of women's higher ...

Aortic aneurysms can be deadly. If they rupture, a person only has a 20% chance of survival. The aorta, sometimes referred to ...

The iconic rapper Scarface revealed that he faced "certain death" after going into ICU in August of 2024 for open heart surgery ...

When Richard A. Thompson III walks through hospital corridors or on their grounds with families of loved ones who are injured ...

Turner's syndrome may cause coarctation of the aorta or malformation of the aortic valve. Marfan syndrome can cause aortic aneurysm due to the weakening of connective tissues, including those that ...

The Houston MC just went through open-heart surgery with "one of the most sought-after surgeons in the world." ...

It usually only occurs in patients who have had surgery to treat an aortic aneurysm in the past. It is a life-threatening condition that is difficult to diagnose. Its complications are infections and ...

Former "Geto Boys" group member Scarface reveals he had open-heart surgery recently and that he is doing just fine ...