Study: Surgery Viable Option For Treating Chest Pain In Elderly
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A new study finds that elderly people who undergo surgery or angioplasty to treat chest pain fare just as well in the long-term as those treated with medication.
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NEW YORK  - The wrist is a better access  spot than the groin for performing angioplasty in very elderly  patients with heart disease, new research shows.
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The nationâs two leading heart groups issued new guidelines Thursday about what should be done for patients with heart disease before they undergo surgery on other parts of the body.
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Treating heart-attack patients without losing any time and with a more aggressive regimen of cholesterol-lowering medicines can save many lives, shows new research.
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Bypass surgery remains the best option for heart patients with more than one clogged artery
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A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study suggested Monday people with a history of migraines are more likely to suffer angina chest pain.
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NEW YORK  - Heart surgery is a frightening  prospect for many people, but now imagine undergoing the  operation completely awake! That's what seven patients treated  at a hospital in Turkey went though -- in a planned, deliberate  study.
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Many breast cancer patients 70 and older could safely forgo radiation therapy, which has been the standard treatment after lumpectomy, a study out today says.
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People who go to the emergency room with chest pain and are told that it is not caused by a heart attack or angina might want to get a second opinion. Findings from a new study indicate that on rare occasions heart-related chest pain is incorrectly chalked up to something else.
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Older patients with heart failure have a two-fold higher rate of mortality and re-admission after undergoing non-cardiac surgery than other patients in their age group, a Duke University research team reports.
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Screening relatives of middle-aged people who suffer heart attacks would save lives, say experts.
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NEW YORK  - Patients undergoing treatment  to clear blocked arteries in the heart who have a  moderate-to-high risk of a recurrence of the blockage appear to  have a better outcome if they undergo heart bypass surgery  rather than a less invasive procedure, according to new study  findings.
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NEW YORK  - Quite often, people with heart   failure have some degree of blockage of the coronary arteries.   In such cases, those who undergo surgery to clear to arteries   have markedly better survival than those treated with   medication, researchers from Canada report.
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NEW YORK  - After a heart attack, treatment  with angioplasty or bypass surgery during the initial hospital  stay appears to improve survival compared with a more delayed,  conservative approach, new research shows.
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Sick Willy is on the road to recovery. Former US president Bill Clinton, 58, who was told last week that several of his coronary arteries were more than 90 per cent blocked, has had a successful quadruple bypass operation.
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MONDAY, June 18 (HealthDay News) -- Bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity is safe for carefully selected, older people and Medicare patients, according to a U.S. study in the June issue of the journal Archives of Surgery.
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Former President Bill Clinton&#39;s impending coronary artery bypass graft surgery is the most common heart operation performed in the United States, with more than half a million Americans undergoing the procedure each year.