Sentences with phrase «coronary bypass operation»

When a clogged artery landed Peter Szolovits in the hospital for a coronary bypass operation in mid-October, he noticed a few incongruities other patients might not have.

I would see patients coming back for second coronary bypass operations a few years after their first, having had normal cholesterol levels the entire time.

Not exact matches

In what has become almost routine, the heart - lung machine «breathes» for patients during coronary - bypass operations.

Coronary bypass surgery can be a lifesaving operation.

In new findings published online in the journal Annals of Surgery on December 19, 2014, researchers determined the hospital costs and risk of death for emergency surgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery bypass graft and colon resection.

For the University of Michigan study, researchers evaluated three years of data on 660,700 Medicare patients undergoing one of three major surgical operations: coronary artery bypass grafts, hip fracture repair, and colectomy.