Rory Feek‘s 12-year-old daughter, Indiana, will undergo open heart surgery at a hospital in Texas this week. Her procedure will address a ventricular septal defect (VSD), which is a small hole in her ...

Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart. This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours. Recovery from open heart surgery may take 4-6 ...

Rory Feek shares relief after 12-year-old daughter Indiana successfully undergoes open-heart surgery to close a hole in her ...

Country singer Rory Feek’s 12-year-old daughter Indiana is preparing to have major surgery. “‘I don’t want the surgery Papa,’ Indy said through her tears a few nights ago as we finished prayers and ...

Every year, more than 12,000 Australians undergo open heart surgery—an hours-long medical procedure during which surgeons go inside the chest cavity and repair faulty heart valves or bypass blocked ...

Fox News anchor Bret Baier’s teenage son Paul says his recovery from open-heart surgery is “going pretty smoothly.” The 16-year-old was forced to undergo the emergency surgery last week after an MRI ...

Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

Shortness of breath (dyspnea) is one of the most common side effects after open-heart surgery, often caused by mucus buildup, collapsed airways (atelectasis), or fluid between the lung layers (pleural ...

Open-heart surgery can lead to long-term side effects such as postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD), which can affect people months after surgery, but usually improves within a year. Some people ...