'On-Pump' Heart Surgery Gets High Marks

Courtesy WebMD Health  Wed, 11/04/2009 - 17:31

Coronary artery bypass surgery performed on a beating heart without the aid of a heart-lung machine proved no more effective than traditional bypass surgery, a study comparing the two procedures shows.


 

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