And he's sitting there in front of the Haptic device, the force feedback system, and he's moving his pen towards the heart, and the heart is now beating in front of him, so he can see how the heart is beating.

We're doing this at the Cedars Sinai Heart Institute in the Women's Heart Center.

According to Manoj Jain of Emory University, every year 200,000 US patients could be kept alive a little longer with an LVAD, at a cost of 200,000 per patient, or 40 billion. Is that a sensible use of resources in a country in which there are officially 39 million people below the poverty line, which for a family of four is 22,000?

However, I have encountered rebel leaders who care.

You could now start doing surgery everywhere, on the gut, on the liver, on the heart, on the brain.

My heart was three and a half sizes too big.

He's taken the pen, and he's moving it towards the heart, and he's putting it on the heart, and then he feels the heartbeats from the real living patient.

People still believe in Voodoo. Heart disease, VSD, hole in the heart, tetralogies.

It's a problem that manifests itself in diabetes, obesity, many forms of heart disease, even some forms of cancer when you think of smoking.

You can also sew bypass vessels directly onto a beating heart without cracking the chest.

You have heart disease.

I spent three months at the Heart Institute.

We take our own bone marrow cells and treat a patient with a heart attack, we can see much improved heart function and actually better survival using our own bone marrow drive cells after a heart attack.

Using this drug for 12 months after a heart attack episode can help reduce recurrence of stroke or heart attack.

The drug is already given for 12 months after a heart attack, reducing the risk of a stroke or another attack.

I want to look at the heart.

She was ill with heart disease.

Anti clotting drug ticagrelor slashes the risk of repeat attacks for people with heart disease.

It is dangerous for patients to recover from heart attacks at home.

And to take that even further, this is a heart.

Six weeks, these folds are now beginning with the papilla on the inside of the heart actually being able to pull down each one of those valves in your heart until you get a mature heart and then basically the development of the entire human body.

This pig at 10 06 was having a heart attack.

People who have already have one attack are at a higher risk of having another.

Some 140,000 people have a heart attack in England every year, and a quarter of these go on to have another attack or a stroke.

If the plaque breaks apart it can cause a blood clot, blocking blood to the heart causing a heart attack.

The Revolt of the Meritocrats

Well, heart cells are pretty greedy.

And I started having ischemia to the heart.

For example, a 12 year study of 19,000 white American women found that 101 genetic markers that had been statistically linked to heart disease had no predictive value. Self reported family histories, by contrast, proved very accurate in predicting the disease.

All the cardiac doctors tried to shut him down.

My train was a heart attack.

It's not the heart. What do you do?

And it was right heart failure.

What are the risk factors?

Tom had a heart attack last year.

At 15 minutes I was suffering major O2 deprivation to the heart.

The idea is that when you have a riot or a protest and the police comes towards you, you're wearing this thing it's like a big heart and it has a loudspeaker over your heart so your heartbeat is amplified and the police is reminded it's like having a flower in front of the rifle.

That's a man heart attack.

So this is cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

What makes the heart unique?

Here's a human heart at 25 weeks .

His core temperature had dropped to 77 degrees.

The embargo prevented Cuba's cardiology programme from obtaining consumables used in interventional cardiology procedures directly from the manufacturers.

Should they recover in a specialized cardiac unit in hospital, or should they recover at home?

You could see my over sized heart beating inside of it.