Heart Bypass Best for Multi-Blockage
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Bypass surgery remains the best option for heart patients with more than one clogged artery
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My office telephone has been ringing with patients who have heard about former President Bill Clinton's surgery this month and wonder if they might need cardiac bypass themselves. What I tell them is that careful screening for heart disease is essential, but the bypass operation, which involves sawing open the chest, is a 40-year-old procedure that is usually unnecessary.
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Heart bypass surgery that former President Bill Clinton will undergo next week has become an increasingly common operation. The surgery is necessary when one or more arteries that ensure blood and oxygen flow
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WASHINGTON Dec 9, 2004 - The government is warning of potential heart problems associated with the use of the painkiller Bextra in people who have recently had heart bypass surgery.
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FRIDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Coronary artery bypass surgery is more effective at extending the lives of patients with severe coronary artery disease than either angioplasty or heart medications, Duke University researchers report.
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A drink or two won&#39;t kill you, where heart disease is concerned. In fact, it might save your life. A new study has found that moderate drinking after surgery to open blocked
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NEW YORK -- Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery Monday at a New York hospital and was resting comfortably, his spokesman said.
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Heart bypass surgery is one of the most common major operations in the USA, with about 350,000 performed every year. Although the procedure sounds daunting - it involves cracking
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A study finds a polyester mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size.
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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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Pfizer Inc. on Friday said two small  clinical trials showed heart bypass surgery patients taking  Bextra, an anti-inflammatory in the same class as the recently  withdrawn drug Vioxx, had a higher risk of stroke and heart  attack.
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Former President Bill Clinton had bypass surgery today at the Columbia-Presbyterian Center of New York Presbyterian hospital, a statement said.
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Sanofi-Aventis SA's anti-thrombotic   drug Lovenox reduces the risk of death or new heart attacks in   patients undergoing artery clearance more effectively than an   older -- but still widely used -- medicine.
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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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NEW YORK Sept. 3, 2004 - Bill Clinton was hospitalized with chest pains and shortness of breath Friday and will undergo heart bypass surgery in an operation that could sideline the former president at the height of the campaign for the White House.
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NEW YORK - A heart surgeon prepared to begin operating on former US president Bill Clinton Monday morning, after tests showed significant blockage in three or four of his arteries.
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Former President Bill Clinton was  recovering on Monday after successful quadruple heart bypass  surgery at a New York hospital, and his doctors said he would  have risked a "substantial" heart attack without the operation.