Taylor Swift's team announced that her dad, Scott Swift, was recovering from a quintuple bypass. Here's what to know about ...

Patients with lower extremity arterial occlusive disease often require arterial bypass surgery to maintain leg viability and/or relieve ischemic pain. Current guidelines suggest that the patency ...

If you have peripheral artery disease (PAD), bypass surgery can help. Learn more about PAD, bypass surgery, and the risks and recovery process of this treatment.

Older patients with clogged heart arteries may face a little lower death risk over time if they have bypass operations instead of angioplasty and stents to fix the problem. Researchers compared ...

For leg-bypass patients, drugs can save lives and limbs, but many patients go without them Statins and ACE inhibitors for peripheral arterial disease studied Peer-Reviewed Publication Michigan ...

One treatment strategy was an open bypass surgery, in which blood is redirected around the blocked leg artery by using a segment of a healthy vein.

People with diabetes have a 30 percent less chance of dying if they undergo coronary artery bypass surgery rather than opening the artery through angioplasty and inserting a stent, a new study has ...

A Michigan Medicine study finds that Black and socioeconomically disadvantaged patients with a common vascular disease have more severe symptoms before bypass surgery – and are at greater risk ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MDCoronary artery disease (CAD) occurs when there's a blockage in the arteries that carry blood and oxygen to the heart muscle. CAD is the most common type of ...

Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

Patient’s leg is amputated after knee surgery goes horribly wrong - as surgeon tried to cover mistake, lawsuit claims Dr. Dean Wang claimed he ‘nicked a vein’ but he actually hit a main ...