People who've had a stroke face a significantly higher risk of serious complications if they have an elective surgery during the nine months following their stroke, according to a new Danish study.

The overall mortality risk from an open-heart mitral valve surgery is about 11%, which is about one in nine people based on ...

ANSWER: I am very sorry to hear about the sudden death of your friend during surgery. Open-heart surgery is always risky, but ...

SAN ANTONIO -- The fairly frequent covert strokes arising after surgery could be tied to postoperative delirium and long-term cognitive dysfunction, based on the observational PRECISION study. Among ...

SAN DIEGO—A recent study presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 20th Annual Meeting noted that U.S. rates of endovascular thrombectomy, a lifesaving stroke treatment, ...

Current clinical guidelines used to determine when patients can safely undergo surgery following a stroke may be too conservative and could be delaying important care for cancer and other “semi-urgent ...

Metabolic and bariatric surgery offers significantly greater long-term protection against heart attack, stroke and death than ...

Sam Newman has revealed he is preparing to undergo another surgery just three months after suffering a stroke that left him ...

Michael Batten, from Lightwater, suffered a stroke while working as a history teacher in Thailand.