Professors Guillermo Ameer and Cheng Sun contributed to work that points to a new approach for heart bypass grafts.
Sponsoring Organizations: the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (developed with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons) ...
During a coronary artery bypass, the diseased sections of your coronary arteries are bypassed with healthy artery or vein grafts to increase blood flow to the heart muscle tissue. This procedure is ...
Coronary artery bypass grafting yields better 5-year outcomes in women with chronic severe coronary artery disease than percutaneous coronary intervention, a study finds.
The tiny opaque tube that Yonghui Ding holds up to the light in his laboratory looks like a bit of debris from a dismantled ...
Abstract: Peripheral vascular disease is a widespread clinical problem, accounting for more than one million vascular graft surgeries each year in the United States. To date, attempts to develop a ...
After coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), evolocumab did not reduce saphenous vein graft disease rates at 2 years compared with placebo, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—For patients with failed saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) after CABG, performing PCI to open up the graft appears to be the better course of action over intervening on the bypassed ...