bypass surgery

According to a new study, in the journal Archives of Surgery, gastric banding doesn’t work as well as bypass surgery.

(MedPage Today) -- Percutaneous coronary intervention without surgical backup did not increase the risk of inhospital mortality or need for emergency bypass surgery, according to a systematic review of published literature.

It could be the first real treatment for heart failure: a patient's own heart stem cells, harvested during bypass surgery.

The first 16 patients treated have better heart function and repair of heart-attack damage.

A study found obese diabetics who had gastric bypass surgery lost 64% of their excess weight after a year, compared with 36% in those treated with Allergan's Lap-Band device.

(MedPage Today) -- The group responsible for Consumer Reports on everything from vacuums to cars today released a report card for CABG outcomes at roughly 20% of the nation's cardiac surgery centers.

LAS VEGAS (MedPage Today) -- Gastric bypass surgery leads to the greatest weight loss among the three most commonly used bariatric procedures, investigators in two large cohort studies concluded.

LAS VEGAS (MedPage Today) -- Hyperlipidemic obese patients had more than a 90% reduction in need for lipid-lowering therapy following laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, long-term data from a retrospective cohort study showed.

A Manhattan doctor thinks he may have found a surgical cure for Type 2 diabetes. Dr. Francesco Rubino will soon begin a surgical trial with overweight - but not obese - diabetes patients.

NEW YORK (AP) -- It seemed like a great idea - doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine.

Now the first big test of this method has produced a surprise: Bypass has fewer problems and is more successful done the old way....

Carotid stenosis does not appear to be the direct cause of postoperative stroke in patients undergoing bypass surgery, according to new data.