May 28 -- Undergoing a typical bypass operation today is major surgery. The surgeon opens the patient's chest and sometimes needs to stop the heart temporarily, and rely on a machine to pump the blood ...

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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 ...

Robotic surgery is revolutionizing cardiac care, offering patients faster recovery, smaller scars, and reduced pain. While ...

When applied during open-heart bypass surgery, the results were impressive. "We were able to demonstrate that effects are mediated via this receptor that lead, on the one hand, to connective tissue ...

The probability of survival following bypass surgery is close to the population in general, once the patient has completed the procedure itself. But a register study from the Department of Clinical ...

DALLAS, Sept. 13, 2021 — 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 ...

At right, French Hospital Medical Center cardiac surgeon Dr. Luke Faber prepares an artery rerouted from the chest wall to the heart for a double bypass of blocked heart arteries on June 25, 2008. The ...

A new study that monitors patients who received "on-pump" or "off-pump" coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) over a 10-year period reveals that outcomes between the two forms of heart bypass surgery ...

After postponing her vacation for her father’s heart surgery, a woman questioned leaving during his recovery made her selfish ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Emperor Akihito underwent on Saturday a successful heart bypass operation and doctors said they hoped he would be able to resume the normal lifestyle he wished for. Akihito, ...