So this is a bypass operation, just like what Al Gore had, with a difference.

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

In this case, at the end of the bypass operation, you're going to see the stem cells from the patient that were removed at the beginning of the procedure being injected directly into the heart of the patient.

But not as the guy on the table the guy doing open heart surgery.

And this, I think, is really the future for heart surgeons.

Then I started thinking, would it be possible to hook up a heart lung bypass machine and have a surgery where it was a tube going into my artery, and then appear to not breathe while they were oxygenating my blood?

We don't need sophisticated heart transplants around the world.

At 97 he still does 20 open heart surgeries every month.

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

Basically, if you take an extremely sick patient and you give them a bypass, they get a little bit better.

And what happens is this can be implanted into a human heart without open heart surgery.

Same is true for organ failure, when you have loss of function owing to poor perfusion of kidney, of liver, acute respiratory distress syndrome and damage suffered in cardiac bypass surgery.

Insurance will cover the bypass, it ll cover the angioplasty it won t, until recently, cover diet and lifestyle.

Operations for extra systematic circulation diseases and innate cardiac defect

This is a heart stent developed by Zhong You at Oxford University.

This is a representative patient who at the time was 73 totally needed to have a bypass, decided to do this instead.

I'm gonna build bridges a mile long.

I'm gonna build a bridge a mile long.

On the cardiac side, pacemakers are getting smaller and much easier to place so you don't need to train an interventional cardiologist to place them.

I'll set up the whole thing for you.

I had so many surgeries to put my neck back together, to repair my heart a few times.

Well, the heart stent came from that little blow up box that you might have learned in elementary school.

Yanko Yanev underwent an operation to remove his spleen.

It must be sticky to hold it in your hand!

This is the same procedure, but now done minimally invasively, with only three holes in the body where they're taking the heart and simply injecting stem cells through a laparoscopic procedure.

He asked me to do what I can to hook them up.

We Indonesians love to build bridges.

We're going to do some open heart surgery. I was the only Brit, on a team of about nine American cardiac surgeons, cardiac nurse, intensive care nurse.

He suffered severe damage to his spleen as a result, and had to be operated on.

in the following year.

MANILA In 1980, my father arrived in the United States to undergo a heart bypass, due to the rigors of his imprisonment by the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. The dictatorship offered him a reprieve, but, true to its nature, one dependent on its whims.

I mean it's probably the wet dream for a heart surgeon to be able to go inside of the patient's heart before you actually do surgery, and do that with high quality resolution data.

What if my roommate knew about the heart procedure that was performed in the Lagos hospital last week?

John Pepper there was the cardiac surgeon who did the actual work on me, but everyone else there had to contribute one way or another.

During the thirteen and a half hour surgery, I flatlined twice, 40 quarts of blood were infused into my body.

We use current pacemaker defibrillator technology that's used for the heart.

I needed two hands to stop my heart from pounding.

Shake, partner.

Come on. Give a hand.

Scaffolding for the masons

Give me a hand.

I've soiled my hands.

Heart failure?

Heart diseases.

A heart attack?