Our Heart & Vascular Services offer patients a wide range of leading-edge and diagnostic treatment options for heart surgery. We treat bypass, valve replacement, and other common heart conditions.

During a coronary artery bypass, the diseased sections of your coronary arteries are bypassed with healthy artery or vein grafts to increase blood flow to the heart muscle tissue. This procedure is ...

Here in Lincoln, Bryan Heart does about 450 open heart surgeries a year. Bypass surgery is one of the most common. In fact, nationwide heart surgeons perform about 200,000 a year. With so many people ...

When covid-19 patients get so sick that ventilators can no longer keep them alive, doctors have one last-ditch "Hail Mary" option. It's called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, and it's a ...

"Beating heart" bypass surgery may not trump traditional bypass surgery for low-risk patients, a new study shows. In traditional bypass surgery, doctors stop the patient's heart during bypass surgery ...

When covid-19 patients get so sick that ventilators can no longer keep them alive, doctors have one last-ditch “Hail Mary” option. It’s called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, and it’s a ...

Doing bypass surgery on a beating heart instead of using a heart-lung machine is far more likely to result in clogging of the new arteries within just a few months, a study found. Three months after ...

There was a time in the 1920s when it was considered absurd to work on the human heart. By the time Russell M. Nelson, M.D., attended medical school at the University of Utah, little progress had been ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Sometimes the old ways are better. Historically, surgeons performing ...