Obesity and Heart Surgery: What It Changes, and What You Can Do Before the Operation A conversation worth having properly Weight is raised...
Carotid Artery Disease and Heart Surgery: Reducing the Risk of Stroke Why a heart surgeon looks at the neck Atherosclerosis is not a local...
Diabetes and Heart Surgery: Why Bypass Is Often Preferred Over Stents A different disease, not just more of it Diabetes does not simply in...
Weak Heart Muscle and Heart Failure: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, and Can Ejection Fraction Return to Normal? — Complete Patient Guide...
Heart Rhythm Disorders: When They Matter, and How Surgery Treats Them How the rhythm is normally produced Each heartbeat begins in the sin...
Pectus Excavatum and Carinatum: Chest Wall Deformity in Children and Teenagers Two opposite deformities Both arise from abnormal growth of...
Mitral Valve Regurgitation: Why Repair Is Usually Better Than Replacement What goes wrong The mitral valve sits between the left atrium an...
Mitral Valve Stenosis: A Narrowed Valve That Often First Appears in Pregnancy What happens The mitral valve is the door between the left a...
Chest Wall Tumours: A Lump on the Ribs and What It Means What the chest wall contains The chest wall is more than ribs. It comprises bone ...
Vaping and the Lungs: What a Chest Surgeon Wants You to Know A question that deserves a careful answer Patients ask whether vaping is safe...
Tricuspid Valve Disease: The Forgotten Valve of the Heart Why it earned that name The tricuspid valve sits between the right atrium and th...
Coronary Bypass Surgery: What to Expect Before, During and After Introduction Most patients hear the words "you need bypass surgery" and s...