In chronic heart stimulation, endocardial pacing leads, both passive with the aid of silicone tines or active screw-in, become firmly attached to implanted sites. The lead body may become attached to ...

A team of London scientists have taken a major step in making the use of artificial veins and arteries in coronary bypass grafts a reality. Researchers have developed artificial graft tissue by ...

A 53-year-old German man became the first person to undergo a new, non-surgical technique that turned one of his coronary veins into a coronary artery to bypass a blockage, according to a special ...

Scott Johnstone (left), an associate professor with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, and Mark Joseph, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Carilion Clinic, led a study published in the Journal of ...

A 71 year-old female with type II diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia was admitted electively for coronary angiography and graft study. She underwent CABG 16 years ago with three grafts ...

Factors associated with the surgical procedure of bypass grafting, such as vein graft harvesting and handling, and the size and condition of the conduit and target vessel, determine long-term patency ...

When a modified surgical technique was used to gently remove sections of leg veins used in coronary artery bypass surgery, the grafts were less likely to become blocked and fewer people had a ...

May 28 -- Undergoing a typical bypass operation today is major surgery. The surgeon opens the patient's chest and sometimes needs to stop the heart temporarily, and rely on a machine to pump the blood ...

Paz and colleagues' findings, however, indicate improvements in myocardial ischemia after permanently reducing coronary venous outflow with a CSRS introduced into the silent zone of the great cardiac ...

A recently implanted left ventricular lead was fixated in the coronary sinus due to thrombosis while attempting to reposition the lead because of phrenic nerve stimulation. A 77-year-old woman was ...