Take heart â a bypass can work wonders
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Bill Clinton, the former American president, should be sufficiently on the mend within a few days to leave hospital. Once a quadruple heart bypass patient has climbed a flight of stairs, he is usually deemed fit for discharge.
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An emergency angioplasty operation involves inflating a balloon inside a heart attack patient&#39;s blocked artery, opening it up quickly and restoring blood flow.
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Having a bad heart doesn't mean you can skip exercise, doctors said Wednesday. In fact, it may even help your heart to repair itself. Research presented at the European Society of Cardiology meeting showed that exercise sparks the creation of new heart vessels.
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Scientists have cultured small pieces of heart tissue which beat in the same way as the whole organ. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team hope the work will lead to new ways of repairing heart damage.
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Combining stented angioplasty and robotically assisted &#39;&#39;keyhole&#39;&#39; bypass surgery is safe and may help patients with extensive cardiovascular disease, researchers report.
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An artificial heart does an effective job of keeping heart-transplant candidates alive until -- and even after -- a donor organ becomes available, cardiologists report.
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NEW YORK  - For patients with several blockages in their coronary arteries, mortality rates are lower when they undergo bypass grafting rather than having the new generation of drug-eluting stents inserted, a study shows.
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If a healthy heart and smaller waistline aren&#39;t incentive enough for kids to eat healthy foods, maybe a bracelet or key chain will do the trick.
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NEW YORK - Bill Clinton had a successful quadruple heart bypass operation Monday to relieve severely clogged arteries that doctors said had put the former president in grave danger of a major heart attack sometime soon.    Clinton is expected to make a full recovery, but doctors said he was fortunate to have checked himself into the hospital when he did...
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Former President Bill Clintonâs quadruple bypass surgery two weeks ago sent many middle-aged men rushing to have their hearts checked.
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NEW YORK -- Former US president Bill Clinton&#39;s heart bypass, expected today or tomorrow, likely will be an ordinary replumbing of his ailing heart, not some new whiz-bang robotic or &quot;keyhole&quot; surgery, leading surgeons say.
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NEW YORK - Bill Clinton was in good spirits as he prepared for heart bypass surgery, scheduled for early this week, people close to the Clinton family said.
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Former President Bill Clinton yesterday underwent successful quadruple heart bypass surgery, a four-hour procedure his doctors said prevented a potentially
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NEW ORLEANS - More than five million Americans suffer from heart failure, a debilitating condition in which the heart fails to pump enough blood, starving the body of oxygen and leading to weakness, chest pain and, eventually, death.
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With heart disease by far the No. 1  cause of death in the United States, former President Bill  Clinton was hardly alone in his need for bypass surgery.
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: Former President Bill Clinton will have heart bypass surgery early next week after being rushed to a top New York hospital yesterday complaining of chest pains and shortness of breath.
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Peter Houghton is grateful for his artificial heart. After all, it has saved his life.