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 ...

CLEVELAND — When one thinks of heart bypass surgery-- a long chest scar, months of recovery, pain and often fear come to mind. Since December, about 55 patients have received a new, robotic approach ...

morgantown, w.va. – WVU Heart and Vascular Institute clinical researchers presented results of a national study highlighting the benefits of coronary artery bypass graft surgery over the use of ...

When a modified surgical technique was used to gently remove sections of leg veins used in coronary artery bypass surgery, the grafts were less likely to become blocked and fewer people had a ...

Have you recently undergone a bypass surgery and wondering what precautions to follow after the surgery? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with vital instructions for heart health after a bypass ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier is celebrating a cardiac milestone. On Thursday, Christus cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon Dr. Timothy Danish and the Christus surgical heart team ...

(Reuters Health) - Age, they say, is just a number. But when someone turns 80, their chance of getting life-saving bypass surgery to treat a heart attack immediately drops by 24%, according to a new ...

BOSTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Allowing the heart to keep beating during coronary bypass surgery is riskier than stopping the heart and using a heart-lung machine to keep the patient alive, researchers ...

An estimated one in 20 patients undergoing a common operation to boost blood supply to the heart and to ward off repeat heart attacks may do better if their surgeons also remold the heart to a near ...

Dual antiplatelet therapy after heart bypass surgery is not more effective than aspirin alone – and it increases the risk of excessive bleeding. This has now been shown in a study of 2,201 patients at ...