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 ...

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Anyone who has gone through a major surgery, knows how tense the night before can be. There’s a lot of uncertainty and ...

Doing bypass surgery on a beating heart instead of using a heart-lung machine is far more likely to result in clogging of the new arteries within just a few months, a study found. Three months after ...

Using heart-lung bypass machines with shorter circuits, for example, would limit the volume of blood-diluting solution needed to run the pump. Randomized trials to assess whether methods for ...

Miranda Fleishhacker, CCP, is a Certified Clinical Perfusionist specializing in the operation and management of heart-lung bypass machines during open-heart surgery and other complex cardiovascular ...

It's long been documented that women have a slimmer chance of surviving heart bypass surgery compared to men, and researchers believe that they now know why. Women tend to be more vulnerable to blood ...

When covid-19 patients get so sick that ventilators can no longer keep them alive, doctors have one last-ditch “Hail Mary” option. It’s called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, and it’s a ...