Boston, MA - Results of a randomized trial show no benefit from coronary revascularization before major vascular surgery for patients with clinically significant but stable coronary disease. "In terms ...

CABG surgery is an effective way to improve symptoms and prognosis in patients with advanced coronary atherosclerotic disease. Despite multiple improvements in surgical technique and patient treatment ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Incomplete coronary revascularization is associated with an increased risk of major adverse cardiac events, particularly an increased risk of MI, among patients who later go on to have ...

Patients who have noncardiac surgery within 2 years of undergoing incomplete revascularization of multivessel disease face a higher risk of MACE, especially MI, than those whose revascularization had ...

The purpose of this commentary is to critically examine the CREST-2 results, discuss their implications for clinical decision-making for asymptomatic carotid artery disease, and guide clinicians ...

McFalls EO, Ward HB, Moritz TE, Goldman S, Krupski WC, Littooy F, et al. Coronary-artery revascularization before elective major vascular surgery. N Engl J Med 2004;351(27):2795-804. Design: This ...

In the absence of a randomized, outcome-driven trial, coronary artery revascularization is only performed in vascular surgery patients who would benefit from coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) ...

Reporting the results of the Coronary Artery Revascularization Prophylaxis (CARP) trial, McFalls explained that many doctors routinely open occluded vessels before doing an elective vascular procedure ...

Background: Although practice guidelines recommend coronary revascularization for patients with heart failure, the evidence to support this recommendation is weak. The objective of our study was to ...

A new standard definition of complete coronary artery revascularization was proposed by researchers associated with the ISCHEMIA trial. Anatomic completeness of revascularization, according to this ...

City-based CARE Hospital is one of the very few centres in the country that provides this type of surgery, called total arterial revascularization. NAGPUR: Usually when people undergo cardiac bypass ...