Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a type of open-heart surgery commonly used to treat coronary artery disease.

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 ...

A coronary artery bypass is one of several types of open-heart surgeries, which are major medical procedures. Open-heart surgery is a group of procedures that involve cutting through the breastbone to ...

What are the current evidence-based recommendations for aspirin and clopidogrel (Plavix) use following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery (both on- and off-pump procedures)? If possible, ...

Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) is the best method of treating artherosclerotic coronary arteries in diabetes patients with multivessel disease, even in the presence of type 1 diabetes, a new ...

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

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A new, minimally invasive way to do coronary bypass surgery dramatically reduces pain and recovery time because it's done robotically. CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez says the DaVinci ...

Compared with men, women continue to have a roughly 30-40 percent higher risk of dying following coronary artery bypass surgery, according to a large study led by investigators at Weill Cornell ...

Women are more likely than men to die after coronary artery bypass surgery, according to a large new study. Researchers still don't understand why women have these poorer outcomes. "This should be a ...

Jerry Plaster, 80, survived a 'widow-maker' heart attack after receiving CPR from a friend and undergoing six-hour heart ...

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 ...

Additionally, several new trials reporting longer-term follow-up on MICS coronary and valve surgery have demonstrated durable ...