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Revascularization Surgery

Revascularization surgery helps to restore blood flow to the heart. It can treat blocked arteries in patients with coronary artery disease and may help selected patients with heart failure. Surgery types include coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). CABG is a traditional type of open heart surgery. PCI, also called angioplasty, uses a catheter to inflate a balloon inside the artery. A metal stent may also be ...

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Expert & Community Posts

Exercise and Fitness Reduce Your Heart Disease Risk - But are Not Guarantees

By Jeffrey Heit , Health Expert

...not stopped (i.e. via electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) leads to irreversible brain... Read more »

CPR and Automatic External Defibrillators: Everyday Lifesavers

By Deanne Stein , Health Expert

I was working on a blog a couple of weeks ago about CPR. I was just about done with it and when it... Read more »

Are there Harmful Effects Associated with Having your Heart on the Right Side of the Body?

By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

...and coaches to perform CPR and to work an automatic defibrillator? Has this been implemented in... Read more »

10 Things to Know Before You Go To the Doctor

By Toni Hurst , Health Expert

...placed to open up coronary arteries, or a pacemaker or defibrillator? These all indicate a heart... Read more »

CT Scanning Could Cause Malfunction of Electronic Medical Devices

By Karen Lee Richards , Health Expert

...electronic medical devices, including pacemakers, defibrillators, neurostimulators, and... Read more »

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Health Guide

Arrhythmia Patient Guide

...is permanently attached from the pacemaker directly into the right atrium. Automatic implantable defibrillators are used to correct both atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. Also surgically... Read more »

Causes of Cardiac Enlargement

...reduced by using a variety of medications. For patients at highest risk, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator can be life saving. For slow or blocked heart rhythms, a pacemaker may... Read more »

Screen for Heart Disease

...percentage of health clubs have not adhered to these guidelines and maintain neither an automatic external defibrillator (AED, the kind now found in almost all airports, airplanes and stadiums),... Read more »

Treatment for Congestive Heart Failure

...patients who have had a heart attack or have low LVEF, but who cannot take ACE inhibitors.Implantable defibrillators for patients who have weakened heart pumps (ischemic cardiomyopathy), who had a... Read more »

Stroke Prevention

...significantly beneficial to the heart and reduce the risk for stroke. However, people who have implantable defibrillators should not take fish oil supplements because they may worsen heart rhythm... Read more »

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