Surgeons just performed the first open heart surgery without ever opening the chest. Here's how.

FOR THE FIRST time, doctors have successfully completed a coronary artery bypass without cutting the patient open. They ...

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 ...

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 ...
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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 ...

Researchers successfully perform coronary artery bypass without cutting the chest wall

In a world-first, a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, has successfully performed a coronary artery bypass - a normally open-heart ...
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Open Heart Surgery With No Open Chest

Look around you and you'll likely see someone who's had a problem with his or her heart. It's just that common. Fortunately, open-heart surgery has come a long way. Ida Foraker, of Enfield, learned ...