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"A British man has become the first person in the world to undergo heart surgery using radiation. "
Operation saves woman with back-to-front heart - Daily Telegraph 31st October 2009
"Doctors treating a 28-year-old stroke victim were amazed to discover her illness had been caused by a back-to-front heart. "
Heart valve operations are halted - BBC Health News 21st October 2009
"A Nottingham surgeon will not perform further heart valve operations until an investigation into an infection which killed four patients, has ended.
Twelve people became ill after having heart valve surgery at Nottingham City Hospital earlier this year. "
Half of specialist heart units for children face closure under radical Government plans - The Sunday Telegraph 18th October 2009
"Half of the country's specialist heart surgery units for children face closure under controversial Government plans. "
At last, a heart bypass where they DON'T have to saw your chest open - Daily Mail 13th October 2009
"Every year 20,000 people have a heart bypass because they have blocked arteries. Traditionally, the surgery involves sawing through the breastbone. FARAMARZ ZARE, 45, a computer engineer from Welling, Kent, was one of the first to undergo a new, much less invasive procedure. Here he talks to CAROL DAVIS.. "
Give your arm a little squeeze to boost your heart - Daily Mail 28th September 2009
A simple technique that involves squeezing the arm three times before surgery could speed up recovery from heart bypass operations and even improve patients' long-term survival.
Using the same type of blood pressure device found in GPs' surgeries, doctors squeeze the upper arm three times, for five minutes at a time, restricting blood flow to the heart.
British surgeon combines stem cells with artificial heart in world first - The Times 24th Spetember 2009
A British surgeon has saved a dying heart patient by giving him an artificial heart and injecting him with stem cells to rebuild the damaged muscle in a procedure believed to be a world first.
Professor Stephen Westaby, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, led the team that operated on Ioannis Manolopoulos in Thessaloniki, Greece, to fit him with the mechanical pump.
'Egg whisk' pump allows at-risk patients to have heart surgery - Daily Telegraph 24th September 2009
A miniature 'egg whisk' pump has been pioneered by a British doctor to help the heart pump blood round the body during life-saving surgery.
Surgeon calls for artificial heart surgery in Britain - Daily Telegraph 24th September 2009
A surgeon who travelled to Greece to perform unique artificial heart surgery on a patient has called for similar procedures to be available in Britain.
Dying patient saved by artificial heart and stem cell treatment hailed as world first - Daily Mail 25th September 2009
A British surgeon has saved a man dying of heart failure by giving him an artificial heart and injecting him with stem cells to rebuild the damaged muscle in a world-first operation.
Professor Stephen Westaby, based at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, led the team that operated on Ioannis Manolopoulos in Thessaloniki, Greece to fit him with the mechanical pump.
‘Egg whisk’ pioneered by doctor helps pump blood during heart surgery - The Times 24th September 2009
A miniature “egg whisk” that rotates faster than a high-speed food blender has been pioneered by a British doctor to help the heart to pump blood round the body during life-saving surgery.
The ground-breaking procedure, which involves passing the fold-up whisk through the body to a site next to the heart, allows patients with weak hearts to have an artery unblocked without the risk of kidney failure or cardiac arrest.
Baby born with heart outside body survives against the odds after life-saving surgery - Daily Mail 4th September 2009
A 10-day-old baby born with his heart outside of his body, has undergone revolutionary life-saving surgery.
During the four-hour operation, 13 surgeons created a space for the baby's heart inside his body by shifting his lungs and liver. They did not stop the heart at any point.
Broken hearts mend with 'patch' - BBC Health News 24th August 2009
A team of Israeli scientists has developed a potential way to fix the damage from heart attacks.
A "patch" has been made from heart muscle that can be used to fix scarring left over from a heart attack.
Software to 'still' a beating heart will reduce heart surgery complications - The Telegraph 3rd June 2009
Software that will synchronise the movement of a patient's heart with a surgeon's eye is being developed to help make cardiac operations far easier to perform, it has emerged.
'I didn't want to know my risks' - BBC Health News 24th October 2008
When doctors told Ronald Chapman he had an aortic aneurysm in his abdomen he was worried - he knew nothing about what it was or how it might affect him.
The aneurysm, caused when the body's largest artery swells, had been detected during a scan for an unrelated kidney condition.
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