Robotic surgery is revolutionizing cardiac care, offering patients faster recovery, smaller scars, and reduced pain. While not for everyone, this advanced technique, which assists surgeons with ...

UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Assistant Professor Sasha Still, M.D., has successfully performed the first robotic-assisted aortic valve replacement in the state of Alabama in December 2025.

This photo was taken after the surgery to correct the bleed on Poppy McGee’s brain last year. She is in the center in the front, in her wheelchair. Mollie is to her left, along with Mollie’s daughter, ...

WYNEWOOD, Pa. (CBS) -- Robotic heart bypass surgery is becoming more popular, and a leading pioneer in the minimally invasive operation is in Montgomery County. Lankenau Medical Center has been ...

A team at Morgantown, W. Va.-based WVU Medicine’s WVU Heart and Vascular Institute performed the world’s first combined robotic aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass operation. The same ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — Retired Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton found that he was slowing down. Usually spry and full of energy, Sexton was told it was his heart. “I had just got to where I just didn't ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier is celebrating a cardiac milestone. On Thursday, Christus cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon Dr. Timothy Danish and the Christus surgical heart team ...

Robotic surgery is also called robot-assisted surgery. Your surgeon uses a robotic system that includes a camera and mechanical arms. The mechanical arms have surgical instruments attached. Your ...

The first heart valve implanted in a patient using a new robotically assisted approach to valve replacement has been completed at the Cleveland Clinic. The Perceval Plus artificial aortic valve, ...

A debate at the 25 th annual TCT Conference on the merits of robotic surgery for the treatment of mitral valve disease actually came to more common ground than conflict. While the patient perceptions ...

Sasha Still, M.D., an assistant professor of the UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, was recently featured on UAB's MedCast Podcast. During the episode, Still discusses the unique procedure of ...