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Every year, thousands of people have open heart bypass surgery to reroute blocked arteries. Now a group of doctors are performing bypasses without silencing your beating heart.
Resource: Treatment with Bypass Surgery
Every year thousands of Americans have operations to repair or replace faulty heart valves. For most of those people, it means open heart surgery. But now, doctors at Mayo Clinic are using robots to help them perform certain valve operations without opening the chest. There's less pain, shorter hospital stays and many people get back to work in a couple of weeks.
Resource: Cardiac Surgery
Right now there are close to 5-million people in America suffering from heart failure. Many of these people would benefit from a heart transplant, but because most of them are over age 65, they're often not eligible for that life-saving operation. But now, doctors at Mayo Clinic are studying a device that is not only keeping people with heart failure alive longer, but it's also giving them a better quality of life.
Resource: Heart Transplant
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