Later that year, Clinton underwent heart bypass surgery after experiencing chest pain and shortness of breath.
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He was taken to hospital in Bristol where he was treated before undergoing heart bypass surgery.
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Enter an American hospital for heart bypass surgery and youll likely be home in one to two days.
For Bextra, there is a 2.5-fold increase in risk, but so far this has only seen in heart bypass surgery.
But sometimes scar tissue formed inside the stent, causing artery to close up again-leading to a repeat procedure or to heart bypass surgery.
His stroke is clean and steady, and despite heart bypass surgery and a titanium hip, there is unexpected power, especially on the first serve.
Truth is, for all the life-saving miracles unfolding each day at modern hospitals--from cancer chemotherapy to heart bypass surgery--they are also filled with danger.
New laser techniques could revolutionize heart bypass surgery, cut diagnosis time for viruses linked to cancer from weeks to minutes, reduce hospital costs dramatically, and hold out new promise for saving human lives.
Though the mortality rate for bariatric surgery, according to the most recent (2002) report from the International Bariatric Surgery Registry, is 0.3% during the first 30 days after surgery, it's lower than the 1% for a hip replacement and 2.8% for heart bypass surgery.
The Toronto centre sends clients for swift heart-bypass surgery to a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
The guest of honor was Emperor Akihito, who made a truncated but highly symbolic appearance just three weeks after having heart-bypass surgery.
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Appearing alongside Mrs Gandhi on Saturday, Mr Singh, who has recently undergone heart-bypass surgery and campaigned little during the election, said he hoped Mr Gandhi, who entered politics in 2004, would agree to join his next cabinet.
Initially, Medtronic and Genzyme will work to complete an ongoing 300-patient trial in Europe testing whether injecting skeletal myoblasts into damaged areas of the heart during cardiac bypass surgery helps improve symptoms and reduces hospitalizations in heart failure patients.
That said, a patient like Clinton, who was already on heart drugs, had had bypass surgery, and was suffering from severe chest pain, would almost always wind up getting a stent.
And women who had migraines with auras less than once a month (75 percent of the group) were more than twice as likely as migraine-free women to have a heart attack, and almost twice as likely to have had a heart procedure, such as bypass surgery.
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Winner had a history of heart problems and underwent surgery in 1974 and had a triple heart bypass in 1993.
We might be able to replace the open heart surgery part of a bypass with an injection.
Patients taking 80 milligrams of Lipitor were 16% less likely to die, have a heart attack, undergo bypass or angioplasty surgery, or develop worsening chest pain than those taking 40 milligrams of Pravachol.
However, although this is significant when assessed in the light of a very minor operation, the extra risk is very small in comparison to the higher overall risk of major surgery like a heart bypass.
The 6, 000-patient study was designed to show that AtheroGenics' drug, known by the code name AGI-1067, decreased the risk not only of heart attack, stroke and death but also of less important heart problems, including stent procedures, bypass surgery and chest pain.
The participants in Dr Bolli's study were 23 unfortunates who had each had at least one heart attack in the past, and were thus lined up for coronary-bypass surgery, in which the furred-up blood supply to the heart is replaced with an alternative artery crafted from a blood vessel taken from elsewhere usually the leg.
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In the 1950s, bypass surgery revolutionized the treatment of heart disease.
The trial showed that patients randomized to chelation therapy had a lower risk of a combined endpoint of death, heart attack, stroke, percutaneous coronary intervention, bypass surgery or hospitalization for angina than those who received a placebo infusion.
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He suffers from a degenerative bone disorder in his hip and has had surgery for prostate cancer, a quadruple heart bypass and a double knee replacement.
Cheney had three heart attacks between 1978 and 1988, the year he underwent quadruple-bypass surgery.
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To get close to profitability, Price is also betting on Neutralase, a drug that would be used in coronary-artery bypass graft operations--more commonly referred to as open-heart surgery.
According to a press release issued to reporters, 13.2% of the patients receiving Tredaptive had a heart attack, heart-related death, stroke, or need for a stent procedure or bypass surgery.
Cheney had suffered three heart attacks in 10 years, his first at age 37, and in 1988 underwent quadruple-bypass surgery to relieve blockages in his coronary arteries.
Three years ago David Pate, who runs the parent hospital of the renowned Texas Heart Institute, was alarmed to see that the Houston hospital had a 2% death rate for bypass surgery--slightly above the expected number.
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