When you have coronary artery disease (CAD), plaque buildup has caused your arteries to become narrow. This makes it hard for your blood vessels to properly bring oxygen-rich blood to your heart. This ...

This article describes the positive impact that actively managing functional recovery has on postacute placement for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. Objective: To describe the ...

MADRID — New data from two randomized trials suggest that dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) should be significantly shortened or not used at all after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Researchers ...

A coronary artery bypass is one of several types of open-heart surgeries, which are major medical procedures. Open-heart surgery is a group of procedures that involve cutting through the breastbone to ...

Addition of the PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab to statin therapy after cardiac bypass surgery did not improve 24-month graft patency in the NEWTON-CABG CardioLink-5 trial. Subodh Verma, MD, cardiac ...

Patients with three-vessel coronary artery disease have been found to have better outcomes with coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) than with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), but studies ...