Sentences with phrase «bypass surgery patients»

Bypass surgery patients have no change in their life expectancy - compared to heart patients who had the same symptoms and don't get the surgery.

In a study of cardiac bypass surgery patients at Duke University, those with low magnesium levels were twice as likely to have a heart attack or die from any cause than those with normal levels.

Over two years, gastric bypass surgery patients have been shown to lose two - thirds of excess weight.

«The study randomly assigned heart bypass surgery patients, with and without diabetes, to two types of blood sugar control.

When she saw how bypass surgery patients at St. Luke's lost weight — and their diabetes — after a single operation, she became intrigued.

In line with the hypothesis, Newgard found that BCCA levels plummeted by 40 percent in bypass surgery patients but remained unchanged in dieters.

[27] The STEP, commonly called the «Templeton Foundation prayer study or «Great Prayer Experiment», used 1,802 coronary artery bypass surgery patients at six hospitals.

«Power of Prayer Flunks Unusual Test — NEW YORK — In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery.

Not exact matches

Bariatric Cookery was founded by a cookery writer and bariatric patient, Carol Bowen Ball, to help support those considering or undergoing bariatric (weight - loss) surgeries like Gastric Bypass, Lap Band, and Gastric Sleeve.

The comparison showed that the bypass operation itself seemed to start the hormone networks: The surgery patients were receiving a metabolic bonus that diet - induced weight loss alone could not provide.

In 1995 he published a 14 - year follow - up showing that bypass surgery proved to be a long - term solution for four out of five diabetic patients.

Lack of insurance and patients» reluctance to undergo an operation also make bypass surgery an unlikely cure - all.

Half of the patients were randomly assigned to receive angioplasty with everolimus - eluting stent and half received bypass surgery.

Often these patients require heart bypass surgery at the same time, which can double mortality.

The findings echo past studies, which have shown patients with multiple narrowed arteries have better outcomes with coronary artery bypass grafting, also known as CABG or heart bypass surgery, than with angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI, a less - invasive option in which a stent is inserted to hold the arteries open.

GTC recognized the need to demonstrate on its own the potential for the technology and, in the late 1990s, began a clinical trial of human antithrombin for patients undergoing bypass surgery who develop resistance to the anticoagulant drug heparin.

If a patient is able to make more VEGF, «that would indicate we could treat more conservatively with medicines,» whereas those who made little VEGF might be better candidates for bypass surgery, he says.

Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration added a warning to the COX - 2 inhibitor Bextra, contraindicating its use in patients undergoing bypass surgery.

Their findings, published in Springer's journal Obesity Surgery showed that after gastric bypass surgery, patients frequently report sensory cSurgery showed that after gastric bypass surgery, patients frequently report sensory csurgery, patients frequently report sensory changes.

«This may encourage patients and physicians to weigh the risks and benefits of stenting versus bypass surgery, now that we have further information.»

Newer drug - coated stents that keep arteries open have similar long - term rates of death compared with traditional bypass surgery for patients with more than one diseased coronary artery.

During the nearly month - long follow - up period, there were no differences between the two groups in the percentages of patients that had a stent placed to open an artery, underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, returned to the emergency room or experienced a major cardiac event, such as heart attack.

But the researchers believe the particles could also reduce the need for platelet transfusions in patients undergoing chemotherapy or bypass surgery, and in those with certain blood disorders.

This device for making vitamin D is ideally suited for patients with fat malabsorption syndromes including inflammatory bowel disease and gastric bypass surgery.

Bypass surgery showed a clear advantage only in the percentages of patients who had to return to have an artery reopened: 3.1 percent for the bypass group, versus 7.2 percent per year for the stent Bypass surgery showed a clear advantage only in the percentages of patients who had to return to have an artery reopened: 3.1 percent for the bypass group, versus 7.2 percent per year for the stent bypass group, versus 7.2 percent per year for the stent group.

This process occurs not only in arteries, but also in vein grafts in patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Home visits by a cardiac surgery nurse practitioner (NP) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery can dramatically reduce a patient's risk of hospital readmission and death 30 days after surgery, according to a study in the May 2014 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Ssurgery nurse practitioner (NP) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery can dramatically reduce a patient's risk of hospital readmission and death 30 days after surgery, according to a study in the May 2014 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Ssurgery can dramatically reduce a patient's risk of hospital readmission and death 30 days after surgery, according to a study in the May 2014 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Ssurgery, according to a study in the May 2014 issue of The Annals of Thoracic SurgerySurgery.

Another change involved active warming of patients to normal body temperature once they were taken off the cardiac surgery bypass machine.

The researchers examined data from 190,705 U.S. patients who underwent bariatric surgery (93 percent gastric bypass, 7 percent sleeve gastrectomy) from 1998 - 2010.

To compare these two common types of surgery, the study looked at 217 morbidly obese patients; half were assigned to a gastric bypass and half a sleeve gastrectomy.

The addition of mitral valve (MV) repair (a valve of the heart) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a type of open - heart surgery, did not result in significant benefit to the patient and was associated with increased risk of neurological events.

«Little benefit of adding heart valve repair to bypass surgery in patients with coronary heart disease.»

Gastric bypass surgery can put early diabetes into remission in obese patients, sometimes within a few days.

«Gastric bypass surgery and the medical / lifestyle intervention program are not investigational — both are routinely available to patients at our institutions, and comparable programs exist at many other hospitals and health care facilities.»

Tackett and his colleagues tested samples of veins taken from the legs of patients — 60 of them white and 22 black — during coronary artery bypass surgery.

Goldfine emphasized, however, that treatment must be personalized for all patients who are struggling with obesity and diabetes, and that gastric bypass surgery is not always the best option.

«Our study demonstrates that in patients with mild - moderate obesity and type 2 diabetes, gastric bypass surgery leads to a sustained reduction in weight, improvement in glycemic control, and decrease in cardiovascular risk compared to a medical diabetes and weight management program,» said lead author Donald C. Simonson, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D., of the BWH Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension.

In a randomized controlled clinical trial, scientists from Joslin Diabetes Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital found that patients treated with a form of bariatric surgery known as Roux - en - Y gastric bypass did significantly better, after three years, than patients provided with an intensive diabetes and weight management program.

«As a result of these findings, we expect that more physicians will consider gastric bypass surgery as a viable option for patients with type 2 diabetes and mild to moderate obesity when previous attempts to lose weight and improve glycemic control have not been successful,» said Simonson.

Professors who teach technicians at SUNY Upstate Medical University surveyed 439 bypass machine operators in 2010, also learning that 50 percent texted during surgery, even though 78 percent believe phone use could put patient safety at risk.

In one controlled trial of surgery for angina, half the people with the condition underwent an operation in which doctors merely made a skin incision and closed it up; in the other half, the patients had a particular kind of bypass.

Concentrations of hs - TnI were compared between 74 morbidly obese patients who had a type of bariatric surgery called Roux - en - Y gastric bypass, 62 morbidly obese patients who exercised and restricted their calorie intake, and a control group of 30 people with normal weight.

«But although it has been shown to help reduce injury to the heart during surgery and in other medical contexts, unfortunately it showed no benefit on long - term clinical outcomes in our study of patients undergoing cardiac bypass surgery.»

The study included more than 1,600 patients undergoing heart bypass surgery in 29 hospitals in the United Kingdom.

The researchers designed the study, called Effect of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning on Clinical Outcomes in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery (ERICCA), in an effort to find new ways to improve bypass outcomes for high - risk patBypass Grafting Surgery (ERICCA), in an effort to find new ways to improve bypass outcomes for high - risk patbypass outcomes for high - risk patients.

NEW YORK (November 18, 2014)-- The addition of mitral valve (MV) repair (a valve of the heart) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a type of open - heart surgery, did not result in significant benefit to the patient and was associated with increased risk of neurological events.

Researchers excluded patients if they had a history of depression or ever had a heart attack, other cardiac event requiring hospitalization, bypass surgery or a stent placed.

«With the aging population, increasing prevalence of co-morbidities and a growing need for concomitant valve surgery, heart bypass is being performed in an increasingly high - risk patient population.

In the October issue of the Annals of Surgery, the researchers report that the duodenal switch (DS) produced greater weight loss than the Roux - en - Y gastric bypass (RYGB) by all measures in patients with a body mass index (BMI) of at least 50.

Using data from 251,000 older Americans who had heart bypass surgery, they mapped the interactions among the 466,000 doctors who cared for them, and show the importance of tight «social networks» of physicians to patient outcomes.