Bypass in Medical News

State Report Ranks LIJ as New York's Best for Heart Bypass Surgery, North Shore University Hospital Tops for Emergency Angioplasty Survival

... ranks as the best hospital in New York for heart bypass surgery, according to the latest three-year ... mortality rate of one percent for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery during that three-year ... added Dr. Hartman. LIJ's top ranking for bypass surgery follows its number-one placement in the ...

Study Finds Weight-Loss Surgery Safer Than Thought

... The study, which looked at both gastric bypass surgery and laparoscopic adjustable gastric ... surgery (1,198 patients), laparoscopic gastric bypass (2,975 patients), open gastric bypass (437 patients) or another procedure (166 ...

Heart Surgeon Shortage Predicted

... Trend toward stenting rather than bypass could be a cause, expert says,,,, ... a decrease in the number of people having heart bypass surgery, which is the most frequent operation done by cardiothoracic surgeons. The number of heart bypass surgeries fell 28 percent between 1997 and 2004, ...

Probiotics Supplement May Help After Gastric Bypass Surgery

... -- Taking a probiotics supplement after gastric bypass surgery helps patients lose weight faster and ... included 44 patients who had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and were randomly assigned to either a ... since B-12 deficiency is common after gastric bypass surgery. The study appears in the July issue ...

Vein Removal Method Linked to Bypass Results

... a disturbing finding about coronary artery bypass surgery: The way that the vein used for the bypass is removed from the body appears to affect the ... called endoscopic harvesting had higher rates of bypass failure, heart attacks and death, according to a ...

Canonsburg Woman Undergoes Robot-Assisted Weight Loss Procedure at AGH

... intestine where nutrients are absorbed. Gastric bypass involves significantly reducing the size of the ... operation. Although results vary, gastric bypass on average leads to a 65% reduction in excess ... 30 minutes. Dr. Uchal stressed that gastric bypass is generally recommended for patients who are ...

MAQUET Cardiovascular Awarded New Contract by Novation

... providing on- as well as off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery solutions in addition to intra-aortic ... solutions. With a focus on coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, MAQUET has expertise in ... vein graft retrieval, off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) systems such as the HEARTSTRING III ...

Common Weight-Loss Surgery May Double Risk of Kidney Stones

... Roux-en-Y gastric bypass linked to small increased chances of trouble, ... Having Roux-en-Y, the most common type of gastric bypass surgery, may result in a person having an 8 ... bowel help decrease stomach capacity and let food bypass part of the small intestine. The surgery, used to ...

Acoustiblok, Inc. Combines Sound Abatement and Insulation Materials at Broward County Waste to Energy Plant to Reduce Industrial Noise Pollution

... turbine, it was determined that the plant's steam bypass system would take over the turbine's waste ... such a transition was the unbearable blare of the bypass system, which channels 900 psi of compressed ... Acoustiblok(R) sound abatement material to the bypass system was made after Acoustiblok's Shawn ...

Landmark Study Published in New England Journal of Medicine

... and stable heart disease who received prompt bypass surgery or angioplasty compared to drug therapy alone. The results also showed that while prompt bypass in patients with more severe heart disease did ... more severe heart disease it may be better to do bypass surgery early than to wait and simply treat with ...

Drugs Best First Defense Against Heart Disease for Diabetics

... invasive interventions such as angioplasty or bypass surgery be added, the experts said. The issue ... severe heart disease, there was a benefit from bypass surgery vs. medical therapy alone," she said. ... and stroke. Those were significantly lower when bypass surgery was added to drug therapy, the ...

Death rates same for diabetes and heart disease patients receiving drug therapy or surgery

... and stable heart disease who received prompt bypass surgery or angioplasty compared to drug therapy ... Scientific Sessions, also found that while prompt bypass in patients with more severe heart disease did ... can best help these patients." The bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 ...

Weight-Loss Surgery Options Compared in Super-Obese

... switch surgery may be more effective than gastric bypass surgery for patients with obesity-related medical ... Disease Week 2009 in Chicago.

bypass surgery, surgeons create a small gastric pouch ... years after either duodenal switch or gastric bypass surgery. The rates of resolution for duodenal ...

Quality measures improve outcomes more than hospital volume alone

... concludes that patients facing coronary artery bypass surgery should, as a first priority, select a ... influence outcomes following coronary artery bypass surgery. According to the researchers, care from ... Volume, Quality, and Outcomes of Coronary Artery bypass Surgery," is published in the May 19, 2009 ...

Clinical Data & Innovation Will Shift PCI and CABG Procedures in Europe

... coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures for unique subgroups with ... 2009 and European Markets for Coronary Artery bypass Graft Devices 2009 reports indicate that by ... 2009 and European Markets for Coronary Artery bypass Graft (CABG) Devices 2009 cover France, Germany, ...

Schering-Plough Starts Patient Enrollment in Phase 3 Trial for Acadesine, an Investigational Agent Being Studied for Prevention of Complications From Cardiac Surgery

... surgery in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass (a procedure that stops the heart and places the ... in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery performed with cardiopulmonary bypass, ...

Fewer Heart Surgeries Needed as Technology Improves

... methods, medical advances likely behind drop in bypass procedures FRIDAY, May 8 (HealthDay ... in the United States having coronary artery bypass graft surgery, a new study finds. Rates of bypass surgery steadily increased between the late 1980s ...

Unique Bypass is Rare, New Treatment for People with Severe Aortic Valve Stenosis

... aortic valve -- a procedure called aortic valve bypass (AVB). At Abington Memorial Hospital, the ... for Valvular Heart Disease, "Aortic valve bypass is a minimally invasive procedure performed ... traditional valve surgery, during an aortic valve bypass procedure, the heart does not need to be stopped, ...

Different treatment options in chronic coronary artery disease

... provides answers to the question of when a bypass operation (ACB) and when percutaneous coronary ... authors, the main indication for aortocoronary bypass surgery is when the proportion of ischemic myocardia is at least 10%. A bypass operation can greatly improve the symptoms in the ...

Abnormal Heartbeat After Bypass a Bad Sign

... called atrial fibrillation after heart bypass surgery are at increased long-term risk of dying, ... it." But data on almost 7,000 people who had bypass surgery at Baylor between 1997 and 2006 revealed ... who did not have atrial fibrillation before the bypass but developed it after the procedure, he said. ...

Patients Had Fewer Infection Rates, Fewer Complications at Blue Distinction Centers for Bariatric Surgery(R), According to HealthCore Study

... in 14 states in 2007. Open gastric bypass surgeries had the greatest risk of ... the greatest difference observed for open gastric bypass procedures, according to the HealthCore study. "The average follow-up costs for open gastric bypass 30 days after surgery were 47 percent lower for ...

Leapfrog Group Hospital Survey Finds Majority of Hospitals Fail to Meet Important Quality Standards

... of Hospital Efficiency for Heart Attack Care, bypass Surgery, Heart Angioplasty, and Pneumonia ... use --are met by only 24% of hospitals for heart bypass surgery, 21% for heart angioplasty, 14% for heart ... to save lives: 43% for heart bypass surgery 35% for heart angioplasty ...

Psychotherapy Can Ease Post-Surgical Depression

... Two techniques worked for patients after heart bypass procedures, study finds MONDAY, ... depression in patients who've had coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a new study finds. About 20 percent of bypass patients suffer major depression and another 20 ...

New Surgery for Heart Failure Proves Ineffective

... reconstruction to standard coronary artery bypass surgery does not result in any clinically ... Ischemic Heart Failure (STICH) trial, to cardiac bypass surgery alone or bypass surgery plus ventricular reconstruction. ...

Closing Open Heart Surgery: Saint Joseph's Performs Georgia's First Totally-Closed, Beating Heart Bypass Surgery

... facing open heart surgery for coronary artery bypass or valve repairs just got some great news: open ... heart, totally-endoscopic, coronary artery bypass surgery, has started performing the procedures in ... Srivastava performed the single coronary artery bypass through four small, dime-sized incisions reducing ...

Super micro-surgery offers new hope for breast cancer patients with lymphedema

... the upper arm who underwent a lymphaticovenular bypass at M. D. Anderson from December 2005 to September ... benefits to patients." In lymphaticovenular bypass surgery, surgeons use tiny microsurgical tools to ... with patients who have received lymphaticovenular bypass surgery is necessary to determine if the ...

Diabetics and Elderly May Fare Better With Bypass

... heart artery blockages would be better off having bypass surgery than artery-opening angioplasty. ... point and, as age went up, so did the benefit of bypass surgery." Hlatky led a group that looked at ... six years was almost the same for those who had bypass surgery (15 percent) and those who had what is ...

NorthShore University HealthSystem Only Hospital in the Region to Use Incisionless Procedure to Reduce Weight Regain

... procedure to reverse weight gain after gastric bypass surgery. Evanston, IL ... procedure to reverse weight gain after gastric bypass surgery. “Revisional Obesity ... the number of patients who have undergone gastric bypass in our region over the last 20 years, we predict ...

Men's Sex Lives May Suffer as Waistlines Expand

... Gastric bypass surgery can restore function for obese males, ... up side, the study's authors found that gastric bypass surgery can help reverse those ills. "Previous ... of them had what's known as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. The participants also filled out ...

Is Bypass Truly Better than Stenting?

... In people with severely blocked heart arteries, bypass surgery produced better results than angioplasty ... artery or three major heart arteries. Half had bypass surgery, and the other half had what is formally ... compared with 12.4 percent of those who had bypass surgery. That demonstrated the superiority of ...

Gastric Bypass Halts Diabetes in Obese Teens

... News) -- Obese teenagers who have gastric bypass surgery not only lose weight but see their type 2 ... with remission of their diabetes one year after bypass surgery. This is certainly not the case for ... 2 diabetes. Eleven patients underwent gastric bypass surgery, while the other 67 patients received ...

Gastric Bypass Success Sparks Debate

... News) -- Recent studies showing that gastric bypass surgery extends the lives of obese patients is ... is too old?" he asked. The success of gastric bypass is also stoking debate about its use as a ... in their diet and exercise regimens, gastric bypass surgery can provide long-term, consistent weight ...

Surgical study highlights pros and cons of gastric bypass surgery for severe obesity

... patients who underwent two different gastric bypass techniques had lost up to 31 per cent of their ... study, they now perform proximal gastric bypass as the operation of first choice, having decided that the distal gastric bypass technique, with its longer alimentary limb, ...

Study Upholds Stopping Plavix Use Before Surgery

... drug Plavix less than five days before having bypass surgery runs a higher risk of excess bleeding, is ... Plavix five to seven days before coronary artery bypass surgery, said Dr. Richard C. Becker, a professor ... might be," Becker said. The guidelines say that bypass surgery can be done on people who have been ...

Cardica Announces Publication of Case Report in the Journal of Neurosurgery Featuring Use of C-Port(R) System in Brain Arterial Bypass

... G. Dacey, Jr., Successfully Uses C-Port System to bypass Cerebral Aneurysm in Patient with ... System to connect blood vessels in the brain to bypass an enlarging aneurysm. Ralph G. Dacey, Jr., ... that neurovascular surgeons have to surgically bypass cerebral aneurysms. We are looking forward to ...

Hispanics less likely to have repeat revascularizations 1 year after angioplasty

... Caucasian patients to undergo coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) one year after successful ... procedures including stenting and bypass surgery, according to a study presented at the ... are not being referred for coronary artery bypass surgery as commonly as Caucasians," Parikh said. ...

New National Patient and Surgeon Surveys Show Post-Surgical Care Critical to Optimal Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery

... Surgery (ASMBS). The survey of 208 gastric bypass patients and 201 gastric band patients found that ... have a more difficult time with it than gastric bypass patients (59% vs. 49%). In addition, surgeons ... participated in four or less. Compliant gastric bypass patients also lost more weight than their less ...

Potential treatment option for severe emphysema under study

... air to exit the lungs. During the airway bypass procedure, new openings are created in the airway ... creating new pathways for airflow with the airway bypass procedure, we hope to reduce hyperinflation and ... the trial are randomized two to one to an airway bypass or a control group. If randomized to the ...

Leapfrog Group's 2008 Top Hospitals Excel at Patient Safety

... care for high-risk deliveries? (*Coronary artery bypass graft, percutaneous coronary intervention, ... complex, high-risk procedures (such as heart bypass surgery) done in that particular hospital. ... resources are used for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), percutaneous coronary ...

Final Patient Enrolled In Large Data Registry of Incisionless Gastric Pouch and Stoma Reduction Procedure

... The ROSE procedure reduces the size of a gastric bypass patient's stomach pouch and stoma to approximate the original post-gastric bypass proportions to help them back onto the path of weight loss. Gastric bypass surgery offers a very effective means to lose ...