(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) Jan 16 (Reuters) - For the first time ever in a human, doctors have performed ...

The unconventional method could be the future of heart surgeries.

Researchers at the NIH and Emory School of Medicine have completed the first minimally invasive coronary artery bypass of the ...

A late-breaking study drawing on more than 15 years of national outcomes data from the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database ...

Early clinical outcomes were similar between CT-FFR and QCA groups. These included atrial fibrillation (24.5% vs 35.8%), stroke (0% in both), acute renal failure (1.9% in both), and length of hospital ...

Compared with men, women continue to have a roughly 30-40 percent higher risk of dying following coronary artery bypass surgery, according to a large study led by investigators at Weill Cornell ...

Interv Cardiol. 2013;5(1):93-100. In-stent thrombosis More often seen when ≥1 stent used, long stented segments of coronary artery, drug-eluting stents, bifurcation lesion stenting Incomplete ...

Gender disparities in outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) might be addressed by sex-specific biomarker thresholds for perioperative myocardial injury, researchers suggested from a ...

Exercise can play an important role in the rehabilitation following coronary artery bypass graft surgery because of its positive effect on many of the contributing factors for heart disease, including ...

Multivessel coronary artery disease is any form of coronary artery disease (CAD) that affects several major arteries. CAD is the most common type of heart disease in the United States, and in ...

A Manhattan man’s discussion with his orthopedic surgeon days before his total hip replacement surgery resulted in a stunning discovery about his heart. David Holland, 57, said his orthopedic surgeon, ...