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Bypass Surgery Tops Angioplasty For Sickest Heart Patients

10-05-2006 · ScienceDaily

Patients with severe coronary artery disease live longer if they receive coronary artery bypass surgery as their initial treatment instead of artery-opening angioplasty or heart medications, according to a Duke University Medical Center analysis.

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