Less than two months before his daughter Lauren's wedding, Tom Koegler underwent a quadruple bypass heart surgery at Loyola University Medical Center. After spending six days in the hospital, Mr.

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they underwent open-heart bypass surgery (CABG) or a less invasive procedure called ...

Objective This study aims to evaluate the relationship between obesity (measured by Body Mass Index (BMI)) and postoperative ...

Every year, more than 12,000 Australians undergo open heart surgery—an hours-long medical procedure during which surgeons go inside the chest cavity and repair faulty heart valves or bypass blocked ...

Medical procedures for coronary artery disease include angioplasty, which uses balloons and stents to open blocked arteries, and bypass surgery, which creates new pathways around blockages using ...

Ron Schriefer said he never thought he would die when he suffered his first heart attack at age 40 or after he had a heart transplant at age 65. There were three more heart attacks after the first one ...

WASHINGON - People with several clogged heart arteries fared better if they had bypass surgery rather than a less drastic procedure in which the blood vessels are propped open with tiny mesh cylinders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country singer Mark Chesnutt underwent quadruple bypass surgery, which is done to reroute blood flow to the heart when arteries ...

Bypass surgery is slightly better overall than stenting to open blocked arteries in people with severe coronary artery disease, new research shows. But decisions may still need to be made on a case-by ...

A groundbreaking medical invention used in a variety of life-saving heart operations was developed in Philadelphia: the heart-lung machine. "This was the invention," Dr. Joseph Bavaria, head of ...