In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they underwent open-heart bypass surgery (CABG) or a less invasive procedure called ...

In patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery performed 2-3 days after ticagrelor cessation showed noninferiority with respect to perioperative bleeding ...

A retired HGV driver was the first person in the world to take part in a clinical trial to extend the lifespan of blood ...

MADRID, Spain—Adding evolocumab (Repatha; Amgen) to statin therapy does not lower the risk of saphenous vein graft (SVG) failure among patients who undergo coronary artery bypass surgery, the ...

Addition of the PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab to statin therapy after cardiac bypass surgery did not improve 24-month graft patency in the NEWTON-CABG CardioLink-5 trial. Subodh Verma, MD, cardiac ...

Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

John MacDonald, 73, took part in a clinical trial using gene therapy to extend the lifespan of blood vessels in the heart ...

Compared with dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), a de-escalated DAPT strategy resulted in similar graft occlusion rates and reduced clinically relevant bleeding in patients who underwent coronary ...