Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most prevalent form of heart disease, affecting approximately 18 million adults in the ...

The left internal thoracic artery is “associated with improved survival, graft patency, and freedom from cardiac events” in comparison to leg vein grafts in a procedure called coronary artery bypass ...

Jerry Plaster, 80, beat less than 10% survival odds after collapsing while dancing, receiving CPR from a friend and ...

For optimal 1-year results, in patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting who need percutaneous coronary ...

Kourosh Asgarian, D.O., a cardiothoracic surgeon at Hackensack Meridian Health Jersey Shore University Medical Center, successfully completed the hospital’s first robotic-assisted minimally invasive ...

A team of London scientists have taken a major step in making the use of artificial veins and arteries in coronary bypass grafts a reality. Researchers have developed artificial graft tissue by ...

Patients with acute heart failure often require immediate treatment to restore optimal heart function. The 2 primary methods of revascularization are coronary artery bypass graft and percutaneous ...

A group of doctors from Kerala successfully performed a rare minimally invasive bypass surgery on a kidney-transplant patient ...

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 ...

Recent studies have reported the efficacy of coronary arterial bypass grafts (CABG) for obstructive lesions of coronary arteries in Kawasaki disease; however, the efficacy in coronary aneurysms is ...

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) ...