Heart surgery with less scarring and a faster recovery. UPMC is playing a huge role here and around the world when it comes to robotic heart surgery. In WPXI’s Your Heart Matters collaboration with ...

The first robotic surgery happened in Belgium in 1997. It was considered an expensive novelty met with skepticism. Fast forward 26 years and now it's a standard of care across many medical specialties ...

For the first time in the Balkans and the wider region, a robot-assisted heart surgery was performed at the "Dedinje" ...

Apr. 27—As a self-described "country kid" who grew up riding horses, wearing cut-off jean shorts and canning snap peas on her family farm, a career in the highly specialized field of robotic heart ...

In a first for the region, cardiothoracic surgeons at Sanford Health have a special, high-tech assistant in the operating room. Sanford Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Gurjyot Bajwa standing next to a da ...

In 2025, U.S. surgeons performed first robotic heart transplant to be completed without opening the patient's chest cavity. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: In March 2025, surgeons at ...

The first fully robotic heart transplant in the United States was performed at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston in March this year, according to an announcement by the hospital released on ...

Donny Jones was born with a heart that was a little bit different. His mitral valve, which allows blood to flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle of the heart, was shaped differently.

For more than 50 years, heart surgery has moved away from catastrophic open-chest operations to catheterization, where doctors insert stents or even instruments through a vein in the leg. Doctors at ...

Researchers have designed a robotic heart-like pump powered by urine. Nov. 8, 2013 — -- A new advance in robotics is putting the Pee in C-3PO. Researchers at the University of the West of England ...