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 ...

Minimally invasive, direct CABG is becoming the alternative of choice ... to cardiac surgery obviates the need for the median sternotomy and heart-lung machine used in traditional cardiac surgery.

CABG can often be combined with and performed at the same time ... During this operation, the surgeon will make an incision, called a median sternotomy, in your chest and through the breastbone. They ...

The first groups of patients to receive CABG surgery survived for almost 18 years. However, most required repeat revascularization, which prompted researchers at the Erasmus Medical Centre in the ...

The individuals undergoing CABG procedures ranged between the age ... avoiding the full midline sternotomy incision is very convenient for cardiac patients, with more cosmetic incision and faster ...

Elucidating the impact of a novel long coding RNA in ischemic heart failure Outcomes of tricuspid valve surgery – insights from a large audit database analysis Minimally invasive direct coronary ...