Your Important Question

Photo taken today, Monday, September 1, 2008 on Satan Staten Island with the Philips crapcam.

Study: Bypass better than stents in long term

For heart patients with clogged arteries, the choice between bypass surgery or an angioplasty may come down to one question: How many procedures would you like to have?

In research presented Monday at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Munich, experts concluded that while bypass surgery and angioplasty offer comparable results, patients who have angioplasties are twice as likely to require another procedure within a year.

“If you don’t want to have another heart operation for at least a decade, you should pick the surgery,” said Dr. Heinz Drexel, professor of medicine at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and spokesman for the European Society of Cardiology. Drexel was not connected to the research.

“But that means you have to have your chest cracked open,” he said.

Emphasis added by me.

This is open-heart surgery.
(No, that was not taken with the crapcam!)

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