Coronary artery bypass grafting yields better 5-year outcomes in women with chronic severe coronary artery disease than percutaneous coronary intervention, a study finds.

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 ...

The left internal thoracic artery is “associated with improved survival, graft patency, and freedom from cardiac events” in comparison to leg vein grafts in a procedure called coronary artery bypass ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A new, minimally invasive way to do coronary bypass surgery dramatically reduces pain and recovery time because it's done robotically. CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez says the DaVinci ...

René Favaloro, a pioneering Argentine heart surgeon, is being remembered with a Google Doodle for his contributions to coronary bypass surgery on what would have been his 96th birthday. Born in La ...

Despite reports to the contrary, having bypass surgery to help your heart does not harm your brain, researchers report. In a new study, no support was found for a link between heart bypass surgery and ...

The relative urgency of coronary artery bypass grafting is still under debate, and in this issue of CMAJ, Légaré and colleagues evaluated safety among patients with stenosis of the left main coronary ...