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December 7, 2005 Categories: Uncategorized Posted by admin
When life-threatening problems occur during angioplasty procedures, doctors may perform emergency coronary artery bypass graft surgery, but data from the Mayo Clinic indicates that need to send patients to emergency surgery has dropped sharply, according to a new study in the Dec. 6, 2005, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
“We knew there had been a reduction, but the magnitude of the reduction was a surprise to us,” Dr. Singh said. “The bypass surgery rates, which were close to 3 percent, came down to 0.3 percent in the most recent time period.”
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