Science news articles about 'heart surgeons'

HOUSTON, July 12 (UPI) -- U.S. heart surgeon Michael DeBakey, who pioneered now-common bypass surgery and developed innovative pumps and other devices, has died at 99, officials said.

... for CABG surgery are six weeks for semi-urgent cases and twelve weeks for cases that are non-urgent. Heart surgeons decide on the level of urgency using a common algorithm based on ...

... again be the focus of attention. Professor Axel Haverich, a heart surgeon and Leibniz prizewinner from Hannover Medical School (MHH), and his two colleagues Dr. Serghei Cebotari and ...

... Research Laboratory, which is headed by U-M heart surgeon Steven Bolling, M.D. ... for publication. Seymour also receives funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National ...

... how future drugs could provide protection ahead of heart attacks and strokes for those at highest risk. In the nearer ... help to prevent damage caused as U.S. heart surgeons temporarily cut off blood ...

... two groups in terms of the key clinical outcomes, death and cardiac hospitalization. "Heart surgeons have been using SVR for over twenty years, believing that taking this extra step in surgically ...

... treat people with cardiac conditions," he said. "If the supply of key specialists, such as heart surgeons, declines, that could impact the health of the population and physicians' abilities to ...

... developed a tool for virtual surgery that allows heart surgeons to view the predicted effects of different ... better understanding of each child's unique heart defect, thus improving the surgery outcome ...

Researchers have developed a virtual surgery tool that allows heart surgeons to manipulate 3-D cardiac magnetic resonance images of a patient's specific anatomy to select the ...

Heart surgeons at Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital will know much quicker if the procedures are successful, thanks to a locally developed technology.

Dr. Sabiston led a surgical team in performing an early and daring coronary bypass operation in the 1960s, paving the way for more effective cardiac procedures.