News tagged with bypass surgery
Your own stem cells can treat heart disease
Nov 17, 2009 |
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The largest national stem cell study for heart disease showed the first evidence that transplanting a potent form of adult stem cells into the heart muscle of subjects with severe angina results in less pain and an improved ...
Old method of heart bypass better than 'off-pump'
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It seemed like a great idea - doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine. Now the first big test of this method has ...
Bypassing bypass surgery
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Although open-heart surgery is a frequent treatment for heart disease, it remains extremely dangerous. Now groundbreaking research from Dr. Britta Hardy of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine ...
Is there long-term brain damage after bypass surgery? More evidence puts the blame on heart disease
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Brain scientists and cardiac surgeons at Johns Hopkins have evidence from 227 heart bypass surgery patients that long-term memory losses and cognitive problems they experience are due to the underlying coronary artery disease ...
MSU professor studies links between gastric bypass, immune system
Jul 30, 2009 |
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While the massive weight loss associated with gastric bypass surgery is beneficial, some patients may face malnutrition, poor wound healing and infection as their immune systems adjust to the extreme decrease ...
Study finds risk from popular heart bypass method
Jul 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A common method used in heart bypass surgery spares patients pain and problems upfront but seems to raise their risk of dying or suffering a heart attack over the next three years, a worrisome new study finds. The ...
Death rates same for diabetes and heart disease patients receiving drug therapy or surgery
Jun 08, 2009 |
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There is no difference in mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes and stable heart disease who received prompt bypass surgery or angioplasty compared to drug therapy alone, according to a landmark study focused exclusively ...
New tool can help predict risk of Alzheimer's in elderly
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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A new tool can help predict whether people age 65 and older have a high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Research on the tool is published in the May 13, 2009, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the ...
Study examines outcomes of gastric bypass surgery in morbidly obese and superobese patients
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Superobese gastric bypass patients appear to have improvements in quality of life and obesity-related co-existing conditions, and despite losing weight remain obese after surgery, according to a report in the April issue ...
Two nondrug treatments appear to reduce depression after heart surgery
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 06, 2009 |
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cognitive behavior therapy and supportive stress management—appear more effective than usual care for treating depression after coronary artery bypass surgery, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of General Ps ...
Extra STICH not necessary in surgical treatment of heart failure
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Results from the first comparative effectiveness study of two surgical treatments for heart failure will likely change practice for surgeons and cardiologists evaluating treatment options for some of their sickest patients, ...
Heart bypass surgery better than angioplasty for certain patients, study shows
Mar 19, 2009 |
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After three years working with investigators from 10 different clinical trials around the world from Brazil to London to Pittsburgh, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have pooled enough individual patient ...
Obesity linked to hormone imbalance that impacts sexual quality of life
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Hormonal changes and diminished sexual quality of life among obese men are related to the degree of obesity, and both are improved after gastric bypass surgery according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine ...
Drug-coated stents less risky for heart bypass patients
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Coronary bypass surgery may carry less risk of serious complications if stents coated with a drug that suppresses cell growth are used in the procedure rather than bare-metal stents, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers ...
Surgical study highlights pros and cons of gastric bypass surgery for severe obesity
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Severely obese patients who underwent two different gastric bypass techniques had lost up to 31 per cent of their Body Mass Index (BMI) after four years, with no deaths reported among the 50 study subjects, according to the ...
