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Older Bypass Method Is Best, a Study Shows

New York City : NY : USA | about 1 month ago  
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The heart was stopped while blood was pumped through a heart-lung machine to do the heart’s work. But doctors increasingly worried that the machine, the “pump,” might sometimes lead to strokes or memory problems or personality changes. Some privately called patients with those difficulties...
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  • News Source: The New York Times | about 1 month ago
    The heart was stopped while blood was pumped through a heart-lung machine to do the heart’s work. But doctors increasingly worried that the machine, the “pump,” might sometimes lead to strokes or memory problems or personality changes. Some...
  • News Source: Xtra News | about 1 month ago
    Allowing the heart to keep beating during coronary bypass surgery is riskier than stopping the heart and using a heart-lung machine to keep the patient alive, researchers reported on Wednesday. Doctors at 18 Veterans Affairs medical centers found...
  • News Source: Star Tribune | about 1 month ago
    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...Most surprisingly, there were no signs of mental decline in those on the...
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  • Blog Source: blog.taragana.com
    Earlier, small studies have suggested outcomes were about the same, or gave a slight advantage to off-pump. The debate got attention when former President Bill Clinton had quadruple bypass with a heart-lung machine in 2004. ...
  • Blog Source: cialis-professional.info
    For decades, bypass surgery, in which surgeons improve blood flow to the heart by sewing new blood vessels to get around blocked ones, was done the same way. The heart was stopped while blood was pumped through a heart-lung machine to ...
  • Blog Source: www.gather.com
    Earlier, small studies have suggested outcomes were about the same, or gave a slight advantage to off-pump. The debate got attention when former President Bill Clinton had quadruple bypass with a heart-lung machine in 2004. ...
  • Blog Source: comedicine.com
    4, 2009 — 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. ...
  • Blog Source: cancer.1441.org
    without the aid of a heart- lung machine proved no more effective than traditional bypass surgery, a study comparing the two procedures shows. Roughly 1000 patients treated at 18 Veterans Administration hospitals ...
  • Blog Source: levitra-cialis.info
    Bypass has been linked to complications such as memory loss, muddled thinking, and concentration problems lasting weeks to months after surgery. Placement on a heart-lung machine has been implicated, but not proven, as a possible ... Almost all of
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