For optimal 1-year results, in patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting who need percutaneous coronary ...

An analysis of data on more than 45,000 patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at an academic medical center over the past 30 years finds that the occurrence of stroke ...

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 ...

Kourosh Asgarian, D.O., a cardiothoracic surgeon at Hackensack Meridian Health Jersey Shore University Medical Center, successfully completed the hospital’s first robotic-assisted minimally invasive ...

Complement activation via C3 and C5 plays an important role in inflammation, vasoconstriction, vascular leakage, leukocyte activation, cardiac damage, and apoptosis. The inhibition of complement ...

Incidence of new-onset AF after CABG is higher than previously reported, although overall AF burden is very low.

With the development of a cell-free, biodegradable artery graft comes a potentially transformative change in coronary artery bypass surgeries: Within 90 days after surgery, the patient will have a ...

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 ...

Celiac artery bypass is a surgery to increase blood flow to the organs supplied by your celiac artery. It involves using a graft to create an alternative passage for your blood. Your celiac artery, or ...

To evaluate the clinical impact of reduced heparin responsiveness (HR reduced) on the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) following off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery (OPCAB), and to ...