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 ...

Relying entirely on arteries as a source for grafts in CABG appears to impart better survival for patients irrespective of age, according to a new analysis of registry data from Australia and New ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Different techniques had their place in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), real-world studies affirmed here at the annual meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). In one ...

LISBON, Portugal—Women undergoing CABG surgery seem to have a higher rate of in-hospital mortality if they are treated by a male versus female surgeon, according to a single-center analysis from the ...

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, ...

Real-World Analysis Shows Statistically Significant Reduction in Severe Bleeding and Transfusion Needs in CABG Patients on the Blood Thinner, Ticagrelor, with CytoSorbents Therapy Presented by ...

After undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a patient was sent home on clopidogrel (Plavix) but not aspirin. When he presented to the emergency department with acute coronary syndrome ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The price of CABG was not associated with adverse outcomes or CMS or patient rankings. Cost was higher at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Approximately one in five patients who underwent CABG also had high Lp(a). High Lp(a) at baseline was associated ...

Surgical outcomes were no worse for patients on dialysis who underwent on-pump heart-beating CABG compared with patients not on dialysis. Patients on dialysis typically have a poor prognosis after ...