Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: heart surgery

heart surgery stories: 14 news summaries





 Taylor: Heart Surgery 
 'Went Off Perfectly' 

Actress, 77, tweets that 'it's like having a brand new ticker'

Oct 8, 09 8:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Taylor’s heart surgery today “went off perfectly,” she writes on Twitter. “It’s like having a brand new ticker.” The actress, 77, says the procedure was to repair a “leaky valve,” and ripped media reports that she has diabetes as “a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
media • Elizabeth Taylor • heart surgery • Twitter

 Elizabeth Taylor 
 to Have Heart Surgery 

Actress says procedure will fix a leaky valve without open heart surgery

Oct 6, 09 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Taylor will soon undergo heart surgery, she announced on Twitter today. “Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart,” the 77-year-old actress posted this afternoon, notes ... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Elizabeth Taylor • heart surgery • Twitter • actress

 Robin, Dave Laugh 
 Off Heart Surgery 

Comedians are in "brotherhood of the zipper chests"

May 14, 09 6:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Robin Williams was back to being funny yesterday, appearing on the Late Show more than two months after the heart surgery that halted his tour, E! reports. “I have a cow valve, which is great, and the grazing’s been fun," he told David Letterman, a veteran of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
entertainment • celebrity • David Letterman • heart surgery • Robin Williams • Late Show • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - Surgery last week on actor Robin Williams’ heart “went extremely well,” doctors said today. The 3½-hour procedure corrected an irregular rhythm and replaced a valve, People reports. “A couple hours after surgery, he was entertaining the medical team and making us all laugh,” said the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
recovery • comedian • heart surgery • Robin Williams • aortic valve • irregular heartbeat

(Newser) - Robin Williams will soon undergo heart surgery, People reports. The 57-year-old entertainer, who needs a new aortic valve, has canceled performances of his one-man show until at least the fall. He entered a Florida hospital this week short of breath. "I'm so touched by everyone's support and well wishes,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
comedian • heart surgery • Robin Williams

(Newser) - Barbara Bush underwent open-heart surgery today at a Houston hospital and is doing "fine" now, a family spokeswoman said. "In fact, she is awake." Doctors described the procedure as a cautionary measure after finding hardening on part of her aorta last week, reports CNN. Doctors replaced her... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barbara Bush • George HW Bush • first lady • heart surgery

Indian Leader
in ICU After Heart Surgery

PM's illness highlights lack of succession law, aging Cabinet

Jan 26, 09 6:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Indian PM Manmohan Singh is in intensive care as he recovers from heart bypass surgery, reports the Times of London, highlighting the country's lack of succession law and stoking fears about its preparedness for another terrorist attack. The foreign minister is acting as leader while a special committee has control... More »

MORE ABOUT:
India • heart surgery • Manmohan Singh • Congress Party • intensive care unit • Rahul Gandhi • Indian elections

Man Steals Identity to Fund Heart Surgery

Mentally-disabled friend billed for buddy's $350,000 operation

Aug 22, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Chicago man allegedly nicked the identity of a mentally disabled friend to fund a $350,000 heart bypass operation, say police. John Parsons, 57, was sure he would die without the surgery, said a relative; the alleged scam was uncovered after a caregiver began receiving copies of expenses billed... More »

MORE ABOUT:
health care costs • Chicago • identity theft • Medicaid • heart surgery

(Newser) - Red Sox Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski underwent heart bypass surgery today after going to the hospital for chest pains, reports the Boston Herald. The beloved Yaz, who turns 69 on Friday, had a triple bypass and "everything's fine," said spokesman at Mass General. "The operation was... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Boston Red Sox • Baseball Hall of Fame • baseball • heart surgery • baseball's triple crown • Carl Yastrzemski

 A Medical Frontier:
 100-Year-Olds In Surgery 

Doctors disagree on whether to operate on the 'late elderly'

Jul 18, 08 7:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Life expectancy in the United States keeps rising: more than 90,000 Americans have celebrated a 100th birthday, and experts foresee more than 1 million centenarians by 2050. As lifespans have grown, so too have medical efforts to treat the very old, from hip replacements to chemotherapy. But as the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
health care • elderly • surgery • aging • heart surgery • geriatric medicine • centenarians

obituary

 Michael DeBakey Dead at 99 

Heart pioneer developed key devices, operated on thousands

Jul 12, 08 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael DeBakey, the pioneering heart doctor considered to be the father of modern cardiovascular surgery,  died last night at 99 in Houston, the Houston Chronicle reports.  During his long career, DeBakey operated on some 60,000 patients, including figures like Russian president Boris Yeltsin, trained thousands of surgeons,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
physician • obituary • surgeon • heart surgery • Michael DeBakey

Tragic Bond Links Heart Donor, Recipient

Men married same woman, committed suicide 12 years apart

Apr 7, 08 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Georgia man who took his own life last week had lived 12 years after receiving a transplanted heart from a South Carolina man who also committed suicide, police said. And in a twist worthy of Edgar Allan Poe, the donor's widow had met and married the recipient, the Hilton... More »

MORE ABOUT:
suicide • obituary • heart transplants • organ donor • transplant • heart failure • heart surgery • organ donation • gunshot wounds

 Old Blood Is Bad Blood: Study 

Heart patients whose transfusions sat around have worse survival rates

Mar 20, 08 6:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Donated blood may have a much shorter shelf life than previously thought, finds a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Transfusions using blood at least two weeks old increased heart-surgery patients' post-operative death risk by 30%, researchers discovered, though the current expiration date for blood is... More »

MORE ABOUT:
New England Journal of Medicine • American Red Cross • heart surgery • Cleveland Clinic • blood transfusions • donated blood • expiration date • medical study • cardiac surgery

FDA Delay
Cost 22,000 Lives: Doctor

Agency took a year to pull lethal heart surgery drug Trasylol

Feb 15, 08 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - A prominent researcher who revealed widespread fatalities associated with the heart surgery drug Trasylol says 22,000 people died because of the FDA's delay in blowing the whistle on the drug after his study was published. Drugmaker Bayer also failed to disclose negative results of its own study. In a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
FDA • pharmaceutical companies • Trasylol • Bayer Pharmaceuticals • kidney failure • Dr. Dennis Mangano • heart surgery

14 Stories


from our news partners