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Richard Nolan, a 74-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, is a longtime patient at Saint Luke’s Cardiovascular Consultants. Over the years, he has been treated for claudication, a painful condition caused by reduced blood flow to the calf muscles during exercise. But when his symptoms worsened in July 2025, he was scheduled for surgery at Saint Luke’s East Hospital.

It was a warm, late summer day in Kansas City when Carl Linck, 84, was cruising down Interstate 29 with his 15-year-old grandson riding shotgun.

At 66, Craig has spent half his life with coronary heart disease (CAD). His first heart attack occurred in his early 30s, and he has since had two bypass surgeries and 30-plus coronary stent placements to keep his heart healthy.

Born with congenital heart disease, Christin Murphy, 41, was familiar with cardiology appointments, stress tests, and surgeries.

When Debbie O’Neal was diagnosed with heart failure at 75, she feared her life was ending. She was the same age that her mother had been when she died of heart disease.

One patient's experience more than a decade ago was a pivotal moment for both Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute and Saint Luke's Hospital Maternal-Fetal Medicine Program.

FOX4 talked to Ted Perez and his heart transplant surgeon, Dr. Russ Davis, about the lifelong Chiefs fan's incredible story.

Jim Mitchell faced a dilemma — miss rehearsal for a play he was producing during crunch time, or risk having a heart attack. Read his story.

When Dale Cooksey's mitral valve wasn't sealing normally, doctors at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute performed the MitraClip procedure to get the 98-year-old back to his active lifestyle quickly.