While hospitals without emergency heart surgery backup and those with this service may have similar quality outcomes for elective angioplasties, hospitals without surgery backup have higher costs, ...

In mid-November, the question of whether hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery should offer elective angioplasties rose to the surface as the American College of Cardiology issued revised ...

When life-threatening problems occur during angioplasty procedures, doctors may perform emergency coronary artery bypass graft surgery, but data from the Mayo Clinic indicates that need to send ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Patients with severe coronary artery disease live longer if they receive coronary artery bypass surgery as their initial treatment instead of artery-opening angioplasty or heart ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PHILADELPHIA — For patients with diabetes and multivessel coronary artery disease, coronary artery bypass ...

LOS ANGELES - Angioplasty to clear blocked arteries costs more at hospitals not equipped for emergency heart surgery, according to a study presented on Sunday at the American Heart Association ...

CHICAGO, Sept 24 (Reuters) - People who get surgery to ease chest pain from a blocked heart artery pay $10,000 more for about the same level of relief they can get from taking a combination of pills, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Balloon angioplasty and stent implantation procedures in the early postoperative period after congenital heart ...