Frank W. Bowen, M.D.; Richard Y. Highbloom, M.D. and Michael Rosenbloom, M.D.
This is the story of three high-risk heart patients with three different cardiac conditions who were operated on the same day by three different surgeons. They were fortunate that their surgeries could be done with minimally invasive procedures instead of the more traumatic open-chest surgery.
“What is particularly special about this day is that in the majority of hospitals, these procedures are not even performed,” Dr. Rosenbloom said. Cooper University Hospital’s minimally invasive heart surgery program is one of only a few such programs offered in the Delaware Valley and the most extensive program of its kind in South Jersey.
