When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Coronary artery bypass surgery - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary_artery_bypass_surgery

   Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, pronounced "cabbage"), is a surgical procedure to treat coronary artery disease (CAD), the buildup of plaques in the arteries of the heart.

3. Cardiac surgery - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_surgery

   Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to correct congenital heart disease; or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes, including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, [1] and ...

4. Minimally invasive cardiac surgery - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimally_invasive_cardiac...

   After a minimally invasive procedure, patients recover more quickly than from sternotomy and develop fewer complications. Most patients can expect to resume everyday activities within a few weeks of their operation. After surgery, patients are administered an anaesthetic pain pump and drains that will be removed prior to discharge.

5. What is a cardiac ablation? Why Jim Harbaugh needs surgery ...

   www.aol.com/cardiac-ablation-why-jim-harbaugh...

   The Cleveland Clinic detailed how the surgery is done: "A cardiologist (heart specialist) performs a cardiac ablation by inserting a catheter (tube) through a blood vessel to your heart," the site ...

6. Postperfusion syndrome - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postperfusion_syndrome

   The authors concluded patients with long-standing coronary artery disease have some degree of cognitive dysfunction secondary to cerebrovascular disease before surgery; there is no evidence the cognitive test performance of bypass surgery patients differed from similar control groups with coronary artery disease over a 12-month follow-up period.

7. ‘I was forced to wait eight months’ for life saving heart ...

   www.aol.com/news/forced-wait-eight-months-life...

   When doctors finally saw Dorothea Went, eight months after she’d been referred for an urgent heart operation they were “dumbfounded” at how long she’d been left to deteriorate.. Ms Went, a ...