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The heart-lung bypass machine that stills the heart while surgeons bypass an adult's clogged arteries or repair a baby's malformed heart can also trigger a potentially deadly inflammatory response.

Perioperative morbidity and mortality were reduced with off-pump vs on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, though survival ...

Seeking to bolster its development of a biocompatible graft that promises to reshape the future of cardiac bypass surgery, Medical 21, a medtech device company, today ...

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 ...

At right, French Hospital Medical Center cardiac surgeon Dr. Luke Faber prepares an artery rerouted from the chest wall to the heart for a double bypass of blocked heart arteries on June 25, 2008. The ...

Dr. John Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine and used it to perform the world’s first successful open-heart surgery on May 6, 1953. Dr. John Gibbon was a researcher and surgeon at Jefferson Medical ...