Surgeons just performed the first open heart surgery without ever opening the chest. Here's how.

The unconventional method could be the future of heart surgeries.

Health Rounds: First human coronary bypass surgery performed without chest cracking

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) Jan ...
Houston Chronicle

Heart transplant without opening the chest? Texas doctors just did it.

In a groundbreaking moment for American medicine, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center have completed the first fully robotic heart transplant ever performed in the United States. In order to ...
Snopes.com

US surgeons performed 1st robotic heart transplant without opening chest?

In March 2025, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas, performed the first fully robotic heart transplant to take place in the United States. The operation avoided a ...