Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a type of open-heart surgery commonly used to treat coronary artery disease.

A coronary artery bypass is one of several types of open-heart surgeries, which are major medical procedures. Open-heart surgery is a group of procedures that involve cutting through the breastbone to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — For many patients, the fear of ...

Around the world, more than a million angioplasty procedures are performed each year to try to relieve pain in people with blocked heart arteries. The less invasive catheter procedure appears to be ...

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they underwent open-heart bypass surgery (CABG) or a less invasive procedure called ...

People with several clogged heart arteries fared better if they had bypass surgery rather than a less-drastic procedure in which the blood vessels are propped open with tiny mesh cylinders called ...

The day after Jon Keippel had his aortic valve in his heart replaced, he was up and walking around his property, surprised he felt so strong. "I was amazed," he said. "I was just full of energy." For ...

Country singer Mark Chesnutt underwent quadruple bypass surgery, which is done to reroute blood flow to the heart when arteries are blocked. (Frederick Breedon IV/WireImage via Getty Images) Chesnutt ...

In this case, the doctors opted for a minimally invasive procedure using a 35 mm Myval valve, which was inserted through an ...