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Heart Bypass Surgery

Studies from Health Center describe new findings in heart bypass surgery

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, February 19th, 2010

Investigators publish new data in the report 'Reduction of cardiovascular event rate: different effects of cardiac rehabilitation in CABG and PCI patients.' "In coronary artery disease, the implementation of a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programme favourably affects cardiovascular prognosis. However, it remains uncertain whether patients benefit to a similar extent from CR after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)," investigators in Hasselt, Belgium report.

"In this study, we have assessed whether CR is equally effective for suppressing the two-year cardiovascular event incidence after CABG or PCI. 194 PCI and 149 CABG...

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