Discusses several pioneers of heart surgery, including Christian Barnard.

This site provides information about a heart attack: definition, care, and treatment of a heart attack. Discusses various treatments: cardiac catheterization, angioplasty and bypass surgery.

Students use their knowledge about how healthy heart valves function to design, construct and implant prototype replacement mitral valves for hypothetical patients' hearts. Building on what they learned in the associated lesson about...

Students learn how healthy human heart valves function and the different diseases that can affect heart valves. They also learn about devices and procedures that biomedical engineers have designed to help people with damaged or diseased...

Description of the structure of the heart including the valves.

A guide to the heart, lungs, and circulatory system, and surgical procedures of the heart. Includes many digital images. Lesson plans with pictures and video instructions are very helpful.

Follow the story of James Reynolds as he receives a heart transplant. This site gives a fairly graphic, detailed account of the surgery involved.

Come and learn more about the heart. This fascinating organ will leave you breathless after you visit this informative resource.

"When does a person need a transplant? How many people need and receive transplants?" Learn the answers to these question when you use this site.

An animation of what surgeons do during bypass surgery.

Online presentations on more than 150 health topics, diseases, and conditions, from acne to viruses. Each plays as a slide presentation, with sound, that you can control or set to autoplay. Time varies from 5-20 minutes. Available in...

An animation of what surgeons do during bypass surgery.

An animation of what surgeons do during bypass surgery.