In this open-heart procedure, your chest is opened and the surgeon removes the part of the aorta where the tear is found.

More open-heart procedures than any other Louisiana hospital.

Mitral valve replacement surgery is an open-heart procedure.

Conway does two open-heart procedures a day, beginning the first at 6 30.

This is currently an open-heart procedure, requiring the individual to be placed on cardiopulmonary bypass.

Both of these are open-heart procedures.

Brukhonenko's research was vital to the development of open-heart procedures in Russia.

When we do an open-heart procedure, we have two technicians with that pump.

The open-heart procedure would last at least three hours, possibly five, and the outcome was uncertain.

He told me last night he was going to recommend the open-heart procedure.