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  The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
CABG may also be indicated in other specific circumstances, or when an individual patient is experiencing severe angina pectoris that cannot be controlled with medicines alone.
In the 1970's and 1980's, cardiothoracic surgeons discovered that an artery from the inside of the chest wall, the internal thoracic artery (also called the internal mammary artery), could be used instead of vein for the bypass grafts and that it stayed open longer than saphenous vein grafts.
Potential complications of CABG include bleeding or infection, stroke (which is primarily related to age and history of previous stroke), kidney failure (related in large measure to the kidney function before the surgery), and heart attack during or after the surgery.
www.sts.org /doc/3706   (1393 words)

  
 PTCA vs. CABG -- CTSNet FAQs
Patients with a 60% or greater stenosis of the left main coronary artery have survival benefit from surgery in comparison to medical treatment or angioplasty, and these patients should receive this treatment unless contraindications are present.
Further investigation is needed to define the mechanisms underlying the better observed outcome in diabetic patients treated with CABG in comparison to angioplasty.
Therefore, for patients with an overriding goal to avoid CABG, the choice of PTCA will be 70% effective in achieving the goal with one or more PTCAs but without an additional penalty of greater risk of myocardial infarction.
www.ctsnet.org /doc/60   (1348 words)

  
 CABG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
If CABG surgery becomes more firmly established as a causal factor in cognitive impairment, it would mean that this highly useful technique is frequently iatrogenic, contributing to lasting cognitive impairment in approximately 200,000 patients each year.
CABG surgery is not gentle: major arteries are clamped and moved, solutions infused, blood flow diverted.
The number of CABG surgeries in the US (400-500,000 annually) is not as great as the number of ischemic strokes (500-700,000), but we would wager that it may well exceed the number of stroke patients who arrive at the ER within the six hour window that has been postulated for so many stroke drug candidates.
www.neuroinvestment.com /CABG.html   (4049 words)

  
 General description of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), Eastern Carolina
CABG uses a healthy blood vessel from another part of your body to bypass narrowed or blocked sections of your coronary arteries.
CABG surgery is considered successful when it increases blood flow to the heart.
However, in several studies CABG was not shown to significantly reduce the incidence of heart attack or the progression of CAD.
www.uhseast.com /134513.cfm   (1241 words)

  
 CABG "heart matters
The goal of this operation is to restore the blood supply to the heart muscle by creating a new route (aka bypass) for the blood to flow around the blockages.
CABG is not only the most common operation performed on the human heart, it is currently the most common procedure of any kind in the USA.
Many of the initial CABG operations in the 1960s were done without stopping the heart beat.
www.enter.net /~fsadr/cabg.htm   (3357 words)

  
 Coronary Artery Bypass Graft - Heart Disease and other cardiovascular conditions on MedicineNet.com
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is performed about 350,000 times annually in the United States, making it one of the most commonly performed major operations.
CABG surgery is advised for selected groups of patients with significant narrowings and blockages of the heart arteries (coronary artery disease).
CABG surgery creates new routes around narrowed and blocked arteries, allowing sufficient blood flow to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the heart muscles.
www.medicinenet.com /coronary_artery_bypass_graft/article.htm   (570 words)

  
 Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery - CABG and MIDCAB.
The conventional CABG surgery is done by opening the patient's chest with an incision over the sternum (breast bone) and dividing it to expose the heart.
Simultaneously, the greater saphenous vein from one of the patient's legs is "harvested" to be used for the bypass procedure.
As the procedure is done in a confined space usually while the heart is beating and without the use of a heart-lung machine, surgeons use different methods to slow down and steady the heart.
www.texheartsurgeons.com /CABG.htm   (641 words)

  
 Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The significant pre-operative risk factors for CABG surgery in 1996-1997 in New Jersey are presented in Table 1, along with coefficients for the statistical model, p-values, and odds ratios.
This means that a CABG surgery patient with diabetes has odds of dying in the hospital during or after surgery that are 1.472 times the odds of a patient without diabetes, assuming the two patients are identical with respect to the other risk factors presented in Table 1.
For example, a CABG patient between 75 and 84 years of age has odds of dying in the hospital that are 2.660 times the odds of a patient who is less than 65 years old with the same other risk factors.
www.state.nj.us /health/hcsa/cabgs98/cabgs98t.htm   (4312 words)

  
 Bypass Grafting (CABG) and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
CABG grafts veins or arteries from other areas of the body to the heart.
Blood vessels grafted through CABG provide a new route for arterial blood flow to the heart, avoiding the blockage.
CABG is extensive and invasive open heart surgery.
www.heart-attack-treatments.co.uk /html/bypass-surgery-and-stents.php3   (497 words)

  
 CABG mortality by sex and age [Apr 2002; 98-4]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A reader asked the question about what were the death rates after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and whether there were any patient criteria that predicted a higher likelihood of dying.
In the United States a randomised trial of CABG and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PCTA) has been going on, and patients declining randomisation have been entered into a concurrent observational registry.
There is a fascinating wealth of evidence of different types available in the field of surgery, including many systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomised trials, together with large comprehensive registries, and much thoughtful stuff besides.
www.jr2.ox.ac.uk /bandolier/band98/b98-4.html   (943 words)

  
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The 5-year CABG mortality rate was 19 percent, compared with 35 percent for PTCA.
BARI's results indicate that CABG should be the preferred treatment for patients with diabetes on drug or insulin therapy who have multivessel coronary artery disease and need a first coronary revascularization.
CABG is a major operation, requiring opening of the chest.
www.nhlbi.nih.gov /new/press/clinalrt.txt   (1236 words)

  
 ICU-USA - Tour - CABG
CABG is the transplanting of blood vessels from one part of the body, such as the legs or inside the chest, to the heart.
The number referenced indicates the number of arteries in the heart on which bypass is performed during the surgery.
CABG is used when the condition of the affected arteries in the heart cannot be adequately remedied with medications.
www.icu-usa.com /tour/procedures/cabg.htm   (336 words)

  
 Coronary artery bypass graft - CABG heart surgery for narrowed arteries
A CABG uses a blood vessel (called a graft) taken from the arm, leg or chest to bypass a narrowed or blocked coronary artery.
A CABG is carried out under a general anaesthetic, which means that the person is asleep and feels no pain throughout the procedure.
After a CABG, it is normal to be taken to the intensive treatment unit (ITU) and closely monitored for a day or two before being taken back to the ward.
hcd2.bupa.co.uk /fact_sheets/html/con_art_bypass.html   (1445 words)

  
 News: CABG
Context Renal dysfunction is a complication of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery performed with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) that is associated with...
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a surgical procedure performed more than 600,000 times a year in the United States for the treatment of coronary...
The effect of RA grafts on survival after CABG has yet to be elucidated in the context of a controlled trial to address the second point.
health.cancer-help.org /news/CABG.html   (1177 words)

  
 FOCUS: CORONARY REVASCULARIZATION
CABG is preferred to PTCA in diabetic patients and patients with decreased left ventricular function.
CABG without cardiopulmonary bypass attracted the attention of cardiac surgeons in 1995, and has now become widely applied.Currently, we have a variety of surgical techniques and interventional coronary revascularization.
Off-pump CABG on a beating heart through a limited incision is referred to as MIDCAB (minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass) or LAST (Left Anterior Small Thoracotomy operation), and off-pump CABG on a beating heart through a standard sternotomy incision is referred to as OPCAB (off-pump coronary artery bypass).
www.hmc.org.qa /hmc/heartviews/issue9/CLINICAL.htm   (4328 words)

  
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It develops in 11 to 40% of patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and in over 40% of patients after valvular surgery…The highest incidence of AFIB is seen on postoperative days 2 to 3, with fewer patients developing AFIB either in the early postoperative period or 4 or more days after surgery.
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 MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIRECT CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, MIDCAB
Whereas CABG requires cardioplegia to stop the heart, the use the heart lung machine for cardiopulmonary bypass, and a 30 cm.
During CABG, the heartbeat is stopped temporarily by either cardioplegic arrest or fibrillatory arrest and the blood circulation is maintained artificially by a heart-lung machine [1].
If MIDCAB continues to show similar long-term success rates to CABG in the coming years and proves to be an effective and longer lasting alternative to angioplasty, this procedure could account for as many as 35% of the revascularization cases every year [2].
biomed.brown.edu /Courses/BI108/BI108_2000_Groups/Heart_Surgery/MIDCAB.html   (2593 words)

  
 Patency & Pump-CABG
CABG without incurring the risks associated with the use of
With conventional ("on-pump") CABG, the aorta and heart are
CABG are the critical factors determining the degree of difficulty
www.medical-journals.com /r041.htm   (861 words)

  
 Health care report cards may increase racial/ethnic disparities in bypass operations
Prior to the report card, CABG rates were 3.6 percent for whites, 2.9 percent for Hispanics and 0.9 percent for fls.
After the report card's release, even though CABG rates increased overall, the difference in CABG use between white vs. Hispanic patients and white vs. fl patients increased (8 percent of white patients vs. 4.8 percent of Hispanic patients and 3 percent of fl patients).
The researchers also note that despite the relatively lower use of CABG among racial and ethnic minorities after the report cards were released in New York, there was no increase in angioplasty procedures — often a substitute procedure for CABG — in these groups.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-03/aha-hcr030905.php   (756 words)

  
 CABG
Coronary artery bypass graft - CABG heart surgery for narrowed...
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery - CABG and MIDCAB.
Coronary angiography and indications for CABG or angioplasty.
health.cancer-help.org /web/CABG.html   (191 words)

  
 CABG, Coronary Artery Bybpass Graft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This is the original Cabg document http://www.seedfarm.com/~gshep/cabg~1.html published in 1996 after the fact.
A male my age (52) is supposed to get the heart rate up to 120 -140 beats per minute and sustain that rate for 15 minutes via exercise.
My doctor told me recently that the average time period for a repeat of the CABG is 10 years.
www.seedfarm.com /cabg.html   (1068 words)

  
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 CABG MEDICAL INC Securities Registration Statement (S-1) EXHIBIT 10.16
CABG shall have the right to determine whether patent or other intellectual property protection will be sought for any such invention and shall be solely responsible for all costs associated with obtaining and maintaining such patent or other intellectual property protection.
CABG shall have the right to terminate each license granted with respect to each Attachment B1, B2, and so forth, under which such license was granted, but only in its entirety, at any time upon ninety (90) days advance written notice.
CABG shall not file any new trademark applications for the Trademark, or any name or mark that is confusingly similar in the United States or any foreign countries with respect to any products or services.
sec.edgar-online.com /2004/07/22/0000950134-04-010413/section72.asp   (8879 words)

  
 CABG Medical, Inc. - Fact Sheet - Hoover's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The medical device company is developing an artificial coronary artery bypass graft that uses expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon, the stuff that keeps cookies from sticking to baking sheets) to improve blood circulation in a clogged heart.
CABG Medical believes its Holly Graft System, if approved by the FDA, will eliminate costly complications from graft harvesting from a patient's leg or arm and uses drug-eluting technology to reduce the risk of future clots.
There are 6 competitors for CABG Medical; see more.
www.hoovers.com /cabg-medical/--ID__134642--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (306 words)

  
 || DukeMedNews || Hospital CABG Volume May Not Be Best Quality Indicator
CHICAGO - For coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), hospital procedural volume is only modestly associated with outcomes and therefore may not be an adequate quality indicator, according to a study in the Jan. 14, 2004, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
There have been recent calls for using hospital procedural volume as a quality indictor for CABG surgery, but further research into analysis and policy implication is needed before hospital procedural volume is accepted as a standard quality measure, according to background information in the article.
This study suggests that hospital CABG surgery volume is best considered as a surrogate for quality in a setting where other more direct process and outcome assessments are not available.
www.dukemednews.org /news/article.php?id=7374   (660 words)

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