Placed on a bypass machine, Dr. Patwardhan and his team detached her right ventricular outflow tract and pulmonary artery ...

Described by experts as "one of a kind", Vanellope had three operations to place her heart back in her chest due to an extremely rare condition called ectopia cordis. The hospital where she was ...

treatment requires urgent pacemaker placement. A pacemaker is a small battery-powered device that’s implanted in the chest. It contains wires (or leads) that run to the heart and carry ...

Chest pain can be a sign of a heart attack, which needs urgent medical attention. But other possible causes, such as muscle strain and heartburn, may respond to home treatment, such as ginger or ...

By the next morning, after a fitful night of intermittent chest pressure, dizziness and other symptoms, "I knew instinctively it had to be heart-related," she said. She was able to get an ...