A 64-year-old man, recovering from emergency heart bypass surgery, experienced alarming post-operative symptoms including ...

Dual antiplatelet therapy after heart bypass surgery is not more effective than aspirin alone - and it increases the risk of excessive bleeding. This has now been shown in a study of 2,201 patients at ...

Dual antiplatelet therapy after heart bypass surgery is not more effective than aspirin alone – and it increases the risk of excessive bleeding. This has now been shown in a study of 2,201 patients at ...

LONDON -- Keeping potassium levels high after cardiac surgery in hopes of preventing post-surgical atrial fibrillation (Afib) didn't work, a randomized clinical trial showed. New-onset Afib after ...

A dad kept his promise to his daughter and walked her down the aisle two days after undergoing emergency heart surgery. Six ...

Women are at higher risk of death when undergoing heart bypass surgery than men. Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have determined that this disparity is mediated, to a large extent, by ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Getting a blood transfusion during or after heart bypass surgery may raise the risk of dying in the next few months after the operation, new research suggests. Moreover, ...

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 ...

Last Tuesday my father-in-law had what he thought was indegestion and was eventually taken to the hospital once it was realized it was probably something more serious. Anyway, after spending an entire ...