UCSF vascular surgeons develop new technique to repair aortic arch aneurysm
...ce the stentgraft was placed, surgeons completed a bypass to restore blood flow to areas supplied by the two...e sternum is opened and the patient is placed on a bypass machine. Surgeons remove the abnormal part of the arch and replace it with a graft. Because these pa...Study highlights efficacy of sirolimus stents to prevent restenosis for PTS with CAD
...ely to produce similar or even better results than bypass surgery in most patients, not in a selected few. The way this technology is being delivered, however, may have to be revisited. The vehicle for drug delivery, the stent, is clearly under-engineered at the moment. There is plenty of leeway in stent te...Gastric bypass surgery resolves or improves diabetes in most patients, reports Pittsburgh study
...type 2 diabetes who underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery (LGBP) found that 83 percent of them exper...ts in the study with type 2 diabetes who underwent bypass surgery achieved excellent biochemical glycemic control and were able to reap the clinical benefits ...Stanford computer model shows bypass surgery more cost-effective than stents
...chers have developed a computer model showing that bypass surgery is more cost-effective in the long run tha...ronary arteries blocked who were randomly assigned bypass surgery or angioplasty, a procedure that uses tiny balloons to open blocked arteries. In patients tr...Researchers identify novel treatment for polycystic kidney disease in animals
...arget specific receptors on these kidney cells and bypass other organs makes them relatively nontoxic and adds to their value as a potential treatment for polycystic kidney disease," says Vicente Torres, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic nephrologist and one of the study's two primary investigators. OPC31260 and ...Uninsured face higher death risk from aorta problems
... correct the problem, using an artificial graft to bypass the weak area. But those whose aneurysms rupture have a 50 percent chance of immediate death. In the new study, the U-M team looked at a national sample of 5,363 people under age 65 who had either an intact or ruptured AAA between 1995 and 2000. Thir...A NEW way of stopping the heart during bypass operations could reduce damage to the heart and im...people a year have open-heart surgery to unblockor bypass clogged arteries, or repair damaged valves. The heart is usually stopped for about one hour while th...Blood dilution during bypass surgery associated with kidney damage
..." the blood of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery in order to place them on the heart-lung m...esearchers found in their study of more than 1,400 bypass patients that dilution to the lower levels of accepted ranges is associated with measurable kidney d...Fruits, vegetables overlooked by healing heart patients
Even after the jolt of a heart attack or bypass operation, some cardiac rehabilitation patients ma...escribed cardiac rehabilitation following coronary bypass operations, heart attacks or other heart problems. They interviewed the patients at the start and en...Depression doubles risk of death after bypass surgery
...ath in patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass surgery to restore blood flow to the heart. Becaus...the chances of death, the researchers believe that bypass surgery patients should be screened to assess a patient's likelihood of depression. The findings of ...Treating depression important for reducing death after bypass surgery
... proportion of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery are clinically depressed-and that treating...established risk factor for coronary relapse after bypass surgery; however no previous study has assessed the effect of depression on mortality after bypass s...1st successful national CQI intervention in medicine reported
... have demonstrable impact on local coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) care practices within a two-year p...speed the national adoption of two coronary artery bypass grafting processes. Hospitals were prospectively randomized to receive one of two interventions desi...Common heart surgery potentially dangerous
...re than 40 years immediately after coronary artery bypass surgery to return thinned blood to its normal stat...on sperm, is given to patients intravenously after bypass surgery to counteract the effects of the anticoagulant heparin, given during surgery. Heparin preven...Depression related to poor health after bypass surgery
Men who are depressed before their coronary artery bypass graft surgery are more likely to be re-hospitalize...and reduced quality of life six months after their bypass operation, compared with men who are not depressed before the surgery, according to new research. R...Anesthesia drug may better protect newborn brains during heart surgery
...outcomes in animals that underwent cardiopulmonary bypass under surgical conditions. Researchers at The Chi... that underwent a low-flow type of cardiopulmonary bypass at one week of age. The animals that received desflurane were better able to walk and feed, and had ...Rush begins use of magnetic guided navigation system
...rrently can only be treated using drugs or cardiac bypass surgery," said cardiologist Dr. Gary Schaer, director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at Rush. Rush recently invested more than $2 million in facilities and to acquire the Telstar interventional workstation manufactured by Stereotaxis, I...Making heart surgery more brain-friendly
...o, Ill. The neurological problems associated with bypass surgery have been widely reported. As much as 6 percent to 10 percent of bypass patients will experience memory loss, visual changes, or even stroke. Surgeons believe these outcom...Robotic heart surgery: making repairs without lifting the hood
...nal surgery. The time needed on a cardiopulmonary bypass machine was also slightly longer. Patients in ... which it is used for closed-chest coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Earlier this year, the Columbia team performed the first totally endoscopic CABG in...Marrow injection gets damaged hearts moving
...ns were given during non-emergency coronary artery bypass surgery.Before surgery, each patient had a stress ...e initial study was limited to patients undergoing bypass surgery, but bone marrow cells could be delivered to the heart through a much smaller incision or po...... Such vessels would be important in heart and leg bypass operations and for vessels called arteriovenous sh...ced cardiovascular disease who had coronary artery bypass operations at Stanford University. Fibroblasts form the outer wall of blood vessels. The researche...