More Bypass Surgery News

• Heart Blood Vessels Grown in the Lab

  July 18 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they have grown in mice the kind of ...

• Poor Blood Sugar Control After Heart Surgery Impacts Outcomes

  July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Maintaining proper blood sugar levels after heart surgery is essential, ...

• Carbon Monoxide May Help Bypass Surgery Patients

  May 23 (HealthDay News) -- Low doses of carbon monoxide (CO) -- the potentially lethal ...

• Danger From Heart Surgery Drug Confirmed

  May 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new Canadian study confirms that people given Trasylol, a ...

• Quality Care, Not Number of Procedures, Determines Bypass Results

  April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Hospitals that perform fewer cardiac bypass operations don't have more ...

• Avandia May Slow Atherosclerosis After Bypass Surgery

  April 1 (HealthDay News) -- The controversial diabetes drug Avandia appears to slow the progression ...

• Drug Failed to Reduce Heart Attack Risk After Bypass

  April 1 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers found that giving patients MC-1, a naturally occurring metabolite ...

• Angioplasty Proves Reasonable Alternative to Bypass Surgery

  March 31 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with blockages in the left main coronary artery, ...

• Heart Failure Raises Risks After Non-Cardiac Surgeries

  March 25 (HealthDay News) -- Older people with heart failure face heightened odds of complications ...

• More Evidence of Danger from Heart Surgery Drug

  Feb. 21 HealthDay News) -- Two new studies confirm an increased incidence of death and ...

• Drug Combo Tied to Kidney Risk with Some Cardiac Surgeries

  Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- While use of the clotting drug aprotinin (Trasylol) appears safe ...

• Stents Slightly Better Than Bypass for Blocked Left Coronary Artery

  Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Implanting a stent in a clogged left main coronary artery ...

• Surgery Better Than Stents for Multiple Blockages

  Jan. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Bypass surgery provides a lower risk of death and heart ...

• Priming Heart Before an Attack Could Limit Damage

  Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Just as daily runs can prepare you to survive a ...

• Newer Anticlotting Drug Safe, Effective for Heart Surgeries

  Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- A newer kind of anticlotting drug is safe over the ...

• Statins After Bypass Lower Stroke Risk

  Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with cholesterol-lowering statin drugs after coronary artery bypass graft ...

• Trasylol Pulled From Worldwide Market

  Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Bayer AG suspended worldwide sales of Trasylol, a clotting drug ...

• New Anti-Clotting Drug Shows Promise in Heart Patients

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- A new anti-clotting drug might one day challenge Plavix, the ...

• Balloon Valve May Be Alternative to Open-Heart Surgery

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Older, high-risk heart patients with narrowed aortas who typically need ...