For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery.

Among over 1.2 million patients who underwent primary isolated CABG from 2011 to 2020, women had a higher unadjusted operative mortality versus men (2.8% vs 1.7%, P<0.001), as well as a higher overall ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current North American guidelines recommend nonurgent CABG be performed at least 5 days after cessation of ...

LONDON, England—The “no-touch” harvesting technique for patients undergoing CABG surgery using a saphenous vein graft does not lower the risk of graft failure but is associated with a significantly ...

Patients with acute coronary syndromes who have been taking the antiplatelet medication, ticagrelor, and who need coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) may be able to safely have the procedure earlier ...

(UPDATED) In patients with ACS, performing CABG within a couple of days after ticagrelor cessation is noninferior to waiting 5 or 6 days in terms of bleeding events, according to new randomized data.

Women with severe coronary heart disease causing narrowing or blockages in the arteries may derive greater long-term benefits ...

Fortis Healthcare successfully conducted a high-risk hybrid cardiac surgery on 29-year-old Saif Alam, with a complex ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CABG/surgical AVR was tied to lower risk for stroke, MI, valve reintervention or death vs. PCI/TAVR for aortic ...

Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

Pop superstar Taylor Swift has donated $1 million to the American Heart Association, honoring her father Scott Swift who recently underwent a quintuple bypass surgery.