During a coronary artery bypass, the diseased sections of your coronary arteries are bypassed with healthy artery or vein grafts to increase blood flow to the heart muscle tissue. This procedure is ...
Sponsoring Organizations: the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (developed with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons) ...
Recent studies have reported the efficacy of coronary arterial bypass grafts (CABG) for obstructive lesions of coronary arteries in Kawasaki disease; however, the efficacy in coronary aneurysms is ...
A collaborative study, conducted by researchers in the United Kingdom and in the United States, has found that statins could successfuly reduce mortality among patients undergoing coronary artery ...
Exercise can play an important role in the rehabilitation following coronary artery bypass graft surgery because of its positive effect on many of the contributing factors for heart disease, including ...
Sasha Still, M.D., an assistant professor of the UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, was recently featured on UAB's MedCast Podcast. During the episode, Still discusses the unique procedure of ...
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Vol. 16, No. 2 (April 2004), pp. 157-164 (8 pages) Objective. To determine the ability of administrative data in predicting in-hospital mortality for ...
Investigators led by LMU University Hospital report a higher-than-expected one-year incidence of new-onset atrial ...
After coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), evolocumab did not reduce saphenous vein graft disease rates at 2 years compared with placebo, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line ...
Total arterial revascularization (TAR) might not be the most popular approach to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), but ...
Beating-heart compatibility: Reduces stroke risks and complications, and potentially over 50% cost reduction with a standardized, reproducible and easy-to-learn technology. EDE/UTRECHT, The ...