Coronary artery bypass surgery is a procedure to treat coronary ... including an electrocardiogram (EKG), chest X-ray, additional imaging tests, and blood tests. Before the operation, nurses ...

For many years, in the surgeon’s locker room (which actually has much in common with other kinds of locker rooms), cardiac surgeons would mention to each other a phenomenon they often referred to as ...

In patients that receive coronary artery bypass grafting, partial cardiac denervation may help decrease risk for postoperative atrial fibrillation. Partial cardiac denervation may be effective for ...

Only the first noncardiac surgical procedure occurring after CABG was considered. Operations performed for complications of CABG, such as tracheostomy, sternal wiring or debridement, decortication ...

What is stenosis after gastric bypass surgery? After gastric bypass surgery for weight loss, the new connection between the stomach pouch and the small intestine may narrow. This is called an ...

Van Riemsdyk needed 30 stitches and a bone graft after getting hit with a high stick on Friday, but will still take the ice ...

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 ...

CABG is believed to yield better long-term outcomes in people with three-vessel CAD. This is a serious form of CAD that involves all three major coronary arteries. People with diabetes also tend to ...

Exercise capacity was expressed as peak VO 2 in ml/kg.min. Forty-two patients were consecutively enrolled after successful cardiac intervention procedures if they agree to the research and provided ...

The primary outcome was the early neurological complications (within 7 days post-CABG), defined as a composite of stroke, delayed awakening (≥48h after withdrawing sedative), and severe delirium (ICU ...