Bypass Surgery Tips

The word acute coronary syndrome refers to a group of symptoms that are caused by blockage of the blood flow to the heart muscles. The most common result of this is myocardial infarction or heart attack as it is popularly called. Reduced blood flow leads to death of some portion of the heart muscle wall. While the word heart attack sounds almost fatal, it need not be the case. Knowing how to identify an attack and being aware of some simple measures can help save lives.

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बाइपास सर्जरी हृदय से संबंधित सर्जरी है और एक बेहद जटिल सर्जरी है. जब हृदय की मांसपेशियों में ब्लड की आपूर्ति करने वाली धमनियां क्षतिग्रस्त हो जाती हैं तो इस स्थिति में ह्रदय की बाइपास सर्जरी की जाती है. पूरे बॉडी से ब्लड (जो ऑक्सीजन युक्त नहीं होता) की आपूर्ति करना ह्रदय का कार्य होता है. इस ब्लड को फिर लंग में भेजा जाता है जहां यह ऑक्सीजन के साथ मिलता है. इसके बाद यह ब्लड हार्ट द्वारा सभी ऑर्गन में पंप किया जाता है. यह शरीर के सभी कार्यों में सबसे महत्वपूर्ण कार्य है. ब्लड और ऑक्सीजन की पर्याप...more

Your heart is the most important and vital organ of all and regulates the flow of heart to all parts of the body. Thus, the valves and the arteries which take the blood to your heart are also an important component in ensuring that the circulation is constant. Thus, any hindrance to this process will put a lot of pressure on your heart and lead to more serious problems in the long run. Coronary artery disease is one such problem and can seriously put the health of your heart at risk.

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To lose weight is not an easy task, especially when patients get diagnosed with morbid obesity, as per their Body Mass Index. After going through some unsuccessful attempts at losing weight through control of one s diet, regular exercises or pharmacotherapy, which happen to be some of the most common methods that have been medically supervised for weight loss, surgery might represent the only source. Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy happens to be one of the methods of surgery, directed towards we...more

Obesity is unarguably one of the most regularly discussed topics around the world. A major section of the world's population is suffering from a variety of obesity-related problems. There are a number of natural methods to check obesity; however, several medical surgeries are gaining popularity among the masses with instant results to reduce weight.

Here is a list of the most common types of weight loss surgeries:

1. Gastric sleeve surgery: This surgery is performed where remov...more

Are you overweight and thinking about undergoing a weight loss surgery? If yes, then you can opt for a gastric bypass surgery in which certain changes are made to your digestive system. Due to these changes, the amount of food you consume gets limited and the absorption of nutrients also gets reduced. Hence, weight is lost due to a reduced appetite or stomach capacity. This surgery is undertaken by people who face severe health difficulties because of being overweight. Gastric bypass surgery is ...more

The results of a study conducted by the Department of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Korea, show that multivessel coronary stenting can be performed with a high success rate along with an acceptable clinical outcome. Coronary stenting has proven itself to be an accepted means for treating of obstructed coronary arteries. The need for multivessel coronary stenting has been inflated because of the larger number of patients with unfavourable cardiac profiles. Conventionally, bypass surgery is regar...more

Open heart surgery is a complicated heart procedure. Howeevr, it is still an important surgical procedure to fix critical heart ailments.

Here is a quick fact-checker about this procedure:

The Coronary Artery Bypass Graft or CABG is one of the frequently performed procedures in the open-heart surgery space. This is a procedure that is related to fixing the blocked arteries of the heart. A study conducted by the National Institutes of Health revealed that most patients who had u...more

Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery Bariatric surgery is a group of surgical procedures that bariatric surgeons resort to in order to treat obesity. Bariatric surgery is not a form of cosmetic or plastic surgery. Surgery is done on the digestive tract, particularly the stomach and/or intestine, and basically follows the principle of restricting the amount of food that the stomach can hold to reduce the amount of body fat and excess weight.

Bariatric surgery may also help to shed weight by d...more

The results of a study conducted by the Department of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Korea, show that multivessel coronary stenting can be performed with a high success rate along with an acceptable clinical outcome. Coronary stenting has proven itself to be an accepted means for treating of obstructed coronary arteries. The need for multivessel coronary stenting has been inflated because of the larger number of patients with unfavourable cardiac profiles. Conventionally, bypass surgery is regar...more