Among patients with left main coronary artery disease, COPD was found to increase the risk of mortality and MI both 30 days and 3 years following surgical intervention. This increased risk was ...

A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that even while the incidence of new-onset atrial ...

LOS ANGELES — Patients with diabetes and multivessel coronary artery disease treated with CABG surgery had significantly lower rates of death from any cause, nonfatal MI, or nonfatal stroke when ...

Patients with multivessel or left main coronary artery disease in optimal physical and mental health fare much better with CABG surgery than PCI over long-term follow-up, an analysis of the SYNTAX ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement has outstripped surgical valve replacement as the treatment of choice for patients who need intervention but have already undergone a previous CABG, but this ...

Adelaide, Australia - There is no easy way to predict at the time of presentation which non-ST-segment-elevation (NSTE) ACS patients will require CABG, a new study has found [1]. The study, published ...

Results from CREDO-Kyoto PCI/CABG Registry Cohort-2 show that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was associated with significantly higher risk for serious adverse events in patients with triple ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of CABG has declined dramatically in MI admissions, particularly in STEMI, according to a presentation ...

(HealthDay News) — Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is more expensive and the risk of long-term adverse outcomes is greater in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), according to research ...

After undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a patient was sent home on clopidogrel (Plavix) but not aspirin. When he presented to the emergency department with acute coronary syndrome ...