Elective surgery study shows older adults have concerns about what it will cost them, how much work they’ll miss and whether they’ll catch COVID-19.

Michigan Medicine’s head of cardiac surgery, Gorav Ailawadi, M.D, M.B.A., answers questions about different treatment options for heart valve disease.

Older adults who live in disadvantaged communities are less likely to attend cardiac rehabilitation after common heart procedures, a Michigan Medicine-led study finds.

The vast majority of people who have a minimally invasive heart valve replacement procedure do not participate in recommended cardiac rehabilitation, a Michigan Medicine-led study finds.

A Michigan Medicine study finds people who participate in cardiac rehabilitation have a decreased risk of death years after surgery, with a trend towards better outcomes in patients who attend more sessions.

Researchers discover new opportunities for preventing kidney injury following cardiac surgery.

As the number of heart transplants performed across the United States continues to grow, surgeons at the U-M Health are taking advantage of technology that could increase its transplant yield by as much as 30%. Transplant surgeons in Ann Arbor completed the health system’s first heart transplant using an organ from a donor who had recently died — a process called donation after circulatory death, or DCD.

Surgeons in Zambia completed the country’s first total aortic arch replacement – guided by a team from University of Michigan Health. The six-person surgical team traveled from Ann Arbor to Africa in late February to co-lead this case and several others at National Heart Hospital, a government-established, 120-bed facility in Lusaka, Zambia.

Celebrating 30 years since her life-saving lung transplant, Mary Pierce's story is an inspiration to us all. Read how she overcame the odds and continues to live life to the fullest.