by DrCiuffo | May 14, 2019 | News
Open heart surgery can be a scary and daunting thought. And for a long time blockages in the heart have been treated two ways: with a coronary artery bypass or with stents. With a coronary artery bypass graph, cardiac surgeons cut through a patient’s breast bone, also... 
by DrCiuffo | May 14, 2019 | News
Melissa Luther is a busy mother of three from Naples, Florida. But she had a problem, she was suffering from mitral valve regurgitation, a condition where the heart valve is leaking backward rather than one way like it’s supposed to. Read The Full... 
by DrCiuffo | May 13, 2019 | News
Shirley Knight and her daughter, Laury Mahr, are lucky to have one another: both women have lost their husbands and all their siblings. And were it not for Knight’s intense will to live, Mahr might not have her mother, either. Read The Full... by DrCiuffo | May 12, 2019 | Blog, Anatomy, Dr. Giovanni B Ciuffo, Heart Health, Weight
Exercise isn’t just for achieving big muscles. Exercise impacts heart health in a very important and fundamental way. To keep your heart healthy, you can strengthen the heart muscle by doing exercises. Relatedly, exercises for your heart will help lower your blood... by DrCiuffo | Mar 20, 2019 | Blog, Heart Surgery, Recovery
All forms of surgery present degrees of risk, but the complications that can follow open heart surgery pose unique dangers. Surgeons will take every precaution possible to minimize these risks and ensure their open heart surgery success rate remains high, but...
