Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, pronounced "cabbage"), is a surgical procedure to treat coronary artery...
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Bypass surgery refers to a class of surgery involving rerouting a tubular body part. Types include: Vascular bypass surgery such as coronary artery bypass...
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Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB), or beating-heart surgery, is a form of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery performed without cardiopulmonary...
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Totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery (TECAB) is an entirely endoscopic robotic surgery used to treat coronary heart disease, developed in...
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coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) is a surgical treatment for coronary heart disease that is a less invasive method of coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG)...
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treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to correct congenital heart disease; or to treat valvular...
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recommended. Procedures such as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) may be used in severe disease. In those...
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surgeon to operate safely on the heart. In many operations, such as coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), the heart is arrested, due to the degree of the...
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to the invasive surgery coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG, often referred to as "bypass surgery"), which bypasses narrowed arteries by grafting vessels...
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treat a coronary occlusion, medication may be used to relieve symptoms. Percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass surgery may also...
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infection 54 days after surgery. Since the 1990s, surgeons have begun to perform "off-pump bypass surgery" – coronary artery bypass surgery without the aforementioned...
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tube is usually left behind to prevent the artery from retightening. Coronary artery bypass surgery: This surgery creates a new pathway for blood to flow...
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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an uncommon but potentially lethal condition in which one of the coronary arteries that supply the heart...
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bypass sites include the heart (coronary artery bypass surgery) to treat coronary artery disease, and the legs, where lower extremity bypass surgery is...
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René Favaloro (section Thoracic surgery)
surgeon and educator best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein. Favaloro was born in 1923 and...
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Endarterectomy (redirect from Coronary endarterectomy)
to help patients with angina and coronary artery disease. It is still used today when coronary artery bypass surgery proves difficult. Livesay in Texas...
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and/or stents to open up the artery. Other surgeries performed are the more invasive bypass surgeries that graft arteries around blockages. If an MI is...
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Angioplasty (redirect from Coronary artery balloon dilation)
percutaneously. A coronary angioplasty is a therapeutic procedure to treat the stenotic (narrowed) coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary heart disease...
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A coronary stent is a tube-shaped device placed in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart, to keep the arteries open in patients suffering...
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Myocardial infarction (redirect from Coronary artery occlusion)
risk. In people with blockages of multiple coronary arteries and diabetes, coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) may be recommended rather than angioplasty...
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the heart, it is called coronary artery disease (CAD), and in the brain, it is called cerebrovascular disease. Peripheral artery disease most commonly affects...
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cardiac surgery, encompasses various aspects of cardiac surgical procedures (aortic valve replacement, mitral valve repair, coronary artery bypass surgery, ascending...
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cardiac surgery. Thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysms, mitral valve surgery and the beating heart coronary artery bypass surgery. "Dr. Anil...
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branches of the middle colic. The right gastroepiploic artery was first used as a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) in 1984 by John Pym and colleagues at...
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History of invasive and interventional cardiology (section Roles of bypass surgery and intracoronary stents for coronary artery disease)
performed on a yearly basis, equalling the number of bypass surgeries being performed for coronary artery disease. Soon after Andreas Gruentzig began performing...
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reports an h-index of 62. Puskas is known for advancing coronary artery bypass (CABG) surgery by refining surgical techniques for all-arterial, off-pump...
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catheterization was instrumental in the development of both coronary artery bypass surgery and interventional cardiology. Sones was born in Noxapater,...
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normal coronary blood flow. In this situation, even after ischemia has been relieved (by for instance angioplasty or coronary artery bypass surgery) and...
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impairment, schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder, post-coronary artery bypass surgery cognitive impairment, cognitive impairment associated with multiple...
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Postperfusion syndrome (redirect from Post bypass surgery cognitive dysfunction)
Center showed an increased incidence of cognitive decline after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG), both immediately (53 percent at discharge from hospital)...
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