High-risk patients with weakened hearts don’t benefit significantly when a device that keeps blood pumping through the body is used during angioplasty procedures to re-open narrowed coronary arteries. That was the main finding of a study that was published August 25 in...
Longtime Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer Bob Uecker has returned to the broadcast booth following surgery in late April to replace his aortic valve, aortic root and part of his ascending aorta, as well as perform a coronary bypass. “I’m ready to rock and roll,”...
We’ve talked a lot about aortic valve replacement and repair on our blog, but if you search Google news, you will find that another heart surgery-related topic is getting increased buzz: stent graft surgeries.
According to Wikipedia:
“a stent graft is a tubular device,...