How to Use open-heart in a Sentence

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• People seem to have forgotten the kid had open-heart surgery last year.
  — Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024
• That’s because last week my dad suffered the type of heart attack that one in three people die from and had open-heart surgery.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2025
• The jewelry holder depicts two snakes uniting in the shape of two hearts, an homage to Tiffany & Co.’s open-heart design.
  — Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 21 Jan. 2025
• The death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his son Michael Reynolds, who said the cause was complications of open-heart surgery.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• Meghan underwent open-heart surgery and a PDA stent, and was diagnosed with heart failure.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
• The procedure is less invasive than open-heart surgery.
  — Jeff Gritchen, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025
• Born with a heart defect, Jones underwent a six-hour, open-heart surgery to repair a leaky valve in February.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• In January, my husband, Chuck, underwent roughly four hours of open-heart surgery to fix a leaky valve and clogged artery.
  — Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2023
• Soren, meanwhile, remained hooked up to the ECMO machine for 21 days, and underwent open-heart surgery.
  — Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
• Rangnick's analysis that United needed open-heart surgery, not a quick fix, is seeming truer by the day.
  — Steve Price, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
• The health update comes almost a year after Billy underwent his third open-heart surgery in May 2024.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
• The next day, Perrotto’s mother went into the hospital for open-heart surgery.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2023
• Just two weeks after his son was born, Kimmel revealed that his son had undergone open-heart surgery at just 3 days old.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
• The traditional approach is to replace or repair the valve, which can require open-heart surgery.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2024
• Greco had open-heart surgery that lasted five hours, WNYW reported.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
• Adding to her feelings of detachment, her baby brother had open-heart surgery the following year.
  — USA Today, 7 June 2023
• Peter will soon undergo open-heart surgery and will take time to recover after.
  — Deanna Taylor, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2024
• The 76-year-old also recently opened up about nearly dying after open-heart surgery.
  — Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
• MitraClip was designed to spare patients from open-heart surgery by snaking hardware into the heart through a major vein.
  — Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
• His death at 79, from complications following open-heart surgery, was confirmed by his wife, Sharon Reynolds.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
• Jagger had his first open-heart surgery in June 2023, and a second in July, when surgeons performed a biventricular repair on his heart.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
• The pandemic had isolated her from her support system, her brother-in-law died, her long-term partner moved out, and her mother had open-heart surgery.
  — Cheryl Platzman Weinstock, CBS News, 10 July 2023
• Medi-Cal covered Morton’s open-heart surgery and hospital stays, which lasted weeks.
  — Angela Hart, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• About two months after undergoing open-heart surgery, Sara England's infant son, Amari Vaca, was sick and struggling to breathe.
  — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2024
• Bret took to social media to share the image side-by-side with another photo of Paul — this one as a baby, following his first open-heart surgery 16 years ago at the same hospital.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024
• It is used for long-term correction of a too-slow heartbeat (arrhythmia) or temporarily, such as after open-heart surgery.
  — Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2023
• And there was the open-heart surgery in 2019 that Crockett underwent for a congenital rhythm disorder called Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
• Beginning in 2020, Amy Grant has endured a harrowing list of health issues, including open-heart surgery, a brain injury, throat surgery and shoulder surgery.
  — Nancy Kruh, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
• The injured boy underwent open-heart surgery and spent Christmas in the hospital after one of the drones struck him in the chest and mouth, according to social media posts by his parents, who could not be reached for comment.
  — Kairi Lowery, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2025
• However, Jones said that a 2010 heart disease diagnosis and subsequent open-heart surgery pushed her to learn even more about health — and to help educate others about theirs.
  — Toria Sheffield, People.com, 11 May 2025