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Bypass

Bypass or Stent: The Right Diagnostic Test

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by Dr. Stephen Parker (Article selection and Commentary) on April 5, 2010

ScienceDaily (Apr. 4, 2010) — For a patient with heart failure, checking whether the heart could benefit from bypass surgery or a stent is critical to ensuring survival. One imaging technique, positron emission tomography (PET) with the imaging agent fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), may provide doctors with the information they need to make more informed treatment decisions, [...]

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Biological Bypass

by heartcurrents on March 9, 2010

New Method to Grow Arteries Could Lead to ‘Biological Bypass’ for Heart Disease ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2010) — A new method of growing arteries could lead to a “biological bypass” — or a non-invasive way to treat coronary artery disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report with their colleagues in the April issue of Journal [...]

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Don’t End Up a Pump Head

by heartcurrents on March 5, 2010

(note loss of head) . . Cognitive Impairment After Bypass Surgery Difficulty thinking clearly is one sign of the cognitive impairment some bypass surgery patients experience after surgery. This is called post-perfusion syndrome, referring to the heart-lung machine used to support blood flow during surgery. “The term that we used to use is ‘pump head, [...]

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