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Surgery For Obesity May Need Invasive Monitoring

...procedures to control morbid obesity is by gastric bypass surgery that reduces the size of the stomach and a...with 13 patients who underwent laproscopic gastric bypass for morbid obesity. This type of surgery leads to many dominant damaging respiratory and homodyna...

Operating on a Beating Heart Yields Better Results For Blocked Heart Arteries

...ding to findings of a recent study researchers say bypass surgery on a beating heart might be an effective o...arteries . Researchers assigned 400 patients with bypass grafts to undergo either on-pump (work of the heart is shifted to a mechanical pump while heart rema...

Before Weight Loss Surgery One Should Get Tested for Bacteria

...ow this bacteria impacts people undergoing gastric bypass surgery a weight loss operation in which food is d...archers assessed 99 patients evaluated for gastric bypass surgery to determine if they carried the bacteria. Results showed about a quarter of the patients di...

Weight Reduction Surgery Also Treats Metabolic Syndrome

...mach to limit food intake, or laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, which limits the absorption of calories by causing food to bypass most of the intestinal tract. About half of the group met the criteria for metabolic syndrome. All ...

Reconstituted Blood Better For Young Hearts

...s who underwent heart surgery using the heart-lung bypass machine. About half received whole blood during the operation, and the other half received reconstituted blood. Similar results were seen for the two groups in terms of bleeding, transfusion requirements, complications and mortality rates. But the in...

Alcohol Consumption After Heart Surgery Questioned

...blocked arteries with a stent. Less traumatic than bypass surgery, a stent opens the artery but may cause inflammation resulting in renarrowing of the artery, usually within four months. Participants in the study were surveyed to determine their weekly alcohol consumption in the four months following surge...

The Reason For Loss Of Appetite After Gastric Bypass

...unger and rapid weight loss observed after gastric bypass surgery.// In the gastric bypass procedure, the stomach is divided to create a pouch out of the small proximal portion of the stomach...

Cancer Drug Opens Arteries

...heart surgery. Eight years ago, he had a quintuple bypass operation. . But earlier this year, Bailey had t...ay that means many more patients should be able to bypass bypass surgery. That's good news for Bailey. He says, "Well, I hope to be back to normal and just ...

Continuation Of Medication After Heart Surgery Very Important

....// A recent study confirms that coronary artery bypass surgery patients who stop taking heart medications, such as beta blockers and ACE inhibitors, may provoke abnormal heart accelerations.In the past, it was believed patients were too sick after surgery to continue taking their heart medication. Howeve...

Exercising To Music Found To Boost Brain Power

...t in a cardiac rehabilitation program after having bypass surgery, angioplasty or other procedures to treat clogged arteries. The volunteers said they felt better emotionally and mentally after working out with or without the music. But their improvement on the verbal fluency test doubled after listening to...

Life after Bypass not so Promising for Women.

Women fare significantly worse than men after bypass surgery, according to a new study done by researc...rs have long known women have worse outcomes after bypass surgery than men. Most have attributed this to the fact that women who need the surgery are generall...

Depression doubles mortality risk after CABG

... than twice as likely to die after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) than patients without this mental illness, according to researchers.// Other studies examining the link between depression and CABG outcomes have been unable to reach solid conclusions either because of small sample size or short fol...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) signals vascular disease

...e. One study showed that 57 percent of men who had bypass surgery also experienced ED. Doctors said anti-impotence drugs, which include Viagra, are safe for people with heart disease and may be beneficial for some conditions, like pulmonary hypertension. The only lifestyle modification men suffering from ED...

Heart disease in women being under-treated

... pain caused by blocked arteries, or had undergone bypass surgery or angioplasty. It was found by the researchers that only one third of these women who should have been taking beta blockers, were taking it and only half the women who qualified for cholesterol-lowering drugs took them. They said that even a...

Bone marrow stem cells may help repair cardiac tissues

... had a heart attack and had undergone conventional bypass therapy. Doctors in eastern Germany found that when patients who had a heart attack were injected with bone marrow stem cells into damaged areas of the heart they showed significant improvement in blood flow to the heart. This doctors say, could be ...

Geriatric heart patients benefit from extra weight

... cardiovascular procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting, aortic valve repair, and others. While among the general population obesity leads to detriment in overall health and adverse outcomes following surgery, in the older patients, outcomes were worse for significantly thinner patients, in terms...

Bypass Surgery & Pleural Effusion

"Pleural effusion is a common complication after bypass surgery", say researchers who recently carried out a study of 400 patients who had undergone bypass heart surgery. Pleural effusion involves the accumulation of fluid within the pleural space in the c...

Surgery a safety in senility

...el mesh to keep an artery open, or coronary artery bypass graft surgery to improve blood flow through arteries. The patients were assessed after six months. In both groups, patients said both the severity of their angina symptoms, and their quality of life had improved. But far greater improvements were s...

Comparing heart disease treatments

Researchers in their recent study compare between bypass surgery and stenting for treatment of heart diseas...group of 200 patients to either minimally-invasive bypass surgery or to stenting and compared the outcomes. They found that 30 per cent of the stenting grou...

Greater volume hospitals better for stroke

... other complex medical conditions such as coronary bypass and carotid endarterectomy (a surgical procedure done on patients at risk of stroke caused by blood clotting)....

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