Fun fact: Your arteries can start clogging silently in your 20s—long before any symptoms of heart disease appear! Not long ago, my father’s friend underwent open-heart surgery. The reason? A serious condition known as three-vessel coronary artery disease, where all three major arteries supplying blood to the heart had been blocked, thanks to an invisible …
On April 4, 1969, a momentous event in medical history unfolded at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston. Dr. Denton Cooley, a pioneering heart surgeon, implanted the first artificial heart in a human, Haskell Karp. This procedure was not just a surgical feat but a beacon of hope for millions suffering from heart disease. Today, …