John Ross may be Australia's longest surviving double bypass patient. Here's how has the cardiac operation has evolved over the past 50 years.

Sponsoring Organizations: the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (developed with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons) ...

Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Key Takeaways Bypass surgery is better than stents for serious heart disease.A ...

Aims: Coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) are increasingly performed in elderly patients. Risk factors and outcomes are poorly described for those undergoing noncardiac surgery within 1 year after ...

Women continue to have a higher risk of mortality and morbidity after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) compared with men, with no significant improvements seen over the last decade, a ...

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 ...

Patients benefit from antiplatelet therapy after coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) for an acute coronary syndrome. Whether the addition of ticagrelor to aspirin, as compared with aspirin alone, ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Researchers made a case for superior long-term survival with multi-arterial grafts (MAGs) during multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery, with some arguing that this ...

CHICAGO, IL—Five years down the line, patients with three-vessel disease who underwent fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided PCI have clinical outcomes on par with patients who were treated initially ...

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 ...