heart bypass

September 1, 2006

50 years for the heart

Fifty years ago, the UW perfected its own heart-lung machine and did the first open-heart bypass surgery in the West. Now advances are coming so quickly that they could put future cardiac surgeons out of business.

March 1, 1994

Angioplasty study

If you want to avoid heart bypass surgery, you may want to "bypass" a hospital that does low volume work in another heart procedure—coronary angioplasty.