While not every heart surgery can be performed without transfusion, The Christ Hospital cardiac surgery program has refined ...
A local man was saved with just hours to spare after doctors at The Christ Hospital performed a bloodless heart surgery.Almost two years ago, Jim Parker, 65, of St. Leon, suffered an aortic dissection ...
Tampa, Fla.-based Physicians Partners of America offers bloodless spine surgery through its minimally invasive spine group. 1. The bloodless procedure uses a special machine to recycle the body’s own ...
After other hospitals turned him away, 67-year-old Cesar Ale underwent a groundbreaking heart and liver transplant. Cesar Ale, 67, speaks with hospital staff at Tampa General Hospital. He underwent ...
The nation's number one transplant center by volume achieves a breakthrough milestone in bloodless transplant care, expanding access to medically complex transplant surgeries for patients unable to ...
Marking a rare milestone in advancing bloodless cardiac surgery, Kauvery Hospital, Vadapalani, has successfully performed a combined valve replacement and bypass surgery on 69-year-old male with the ...
Surgeons from Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital and USF Health, also based in Tampa, partnered to perform the world’s first recorded bloodless heart-liver transplant. The procedure was led by Kiran ...
Dr. Mark Galantowicz, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Co-Director of the Heart Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital as well as a Professor of Surgery at The Ohio State Medical Center ...
More hospitals across the country have begun "bloodless surgery" programs, typically in an effort to fulfill the needs of Jehovah's Witnesses, said Dr. Nicolas Jabbour, who started Oklahoma's first ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 7-month-old Iowa boy received part of his grandmother's liver in a surgery performed without blood transfusions, which the family's religion prohibits, doctors said Wednesday.