For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery.

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 ...

A new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that endoscopic radial artery harvesting results in fewer ...

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 ...

The relative benefits of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) continue to be actively debated and analyzed. A recent meta-analysis of individual data from 7 ...

Elderly patients with complex geriatric conditions and left main or multivessel coronary artery disease who experience an acute coronary syndrome—particularly NSTEMI or unstable angina—fare ...

Real-World Analysis Shows Statistically Significant Reduction in Severe Bleeding and Transfusion Needs in CABG Patients on the Blood Thinner, Ticagrelor, with CytoSorbents Therapy Presented by ...

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 ...

Valdecoxib is not approved for use in the treatment of postoperative pain of any type. Valdecoxib is a cyclo-oxygenase-2 selective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that is indicated in the ...