Some patients with severe heart disease receiving wrong treatment, study finds
Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 09:56
in Health & Medicine
Tens or even hundreds of thousands of Americans undergoing angioplasty and stenting each year should be having bypass grafts, researchers say.Tens or even hundreds of thousands of Americans are having coronary artery angioplasty and stenting every year when they should be having bypass grafts, and the result is an extra 5,000 or more deaths annually, researchers said Sunday.