Rare Meat Allergy Caused Sudden Collapse During Heart Surgery
A 74-year-old man experienced a life-threatening allergic reaction during heart surgery, which doctors later discovered was caused by alpha-gal syndrome …
Read Moreheart surgery
All content tagged with "heart surgery"
Heart Surgery Patients Need More Protein to Recover Better
When people have heart surgery, what they eat afterward really matters for getting better. Researchers in China studied 197 patients after their heart …
Read MoreCan Vitamin D Help Prevent Heart Rhythm Problems After Heart Surgery?
Researchers looked at multiple studies to see if taking vitamin D before heart bypass surgery could prevent a common complication called atrial fibrillation—an …
Read MoreNew Treatment Helps Digestion Recover Faster After Heart Surgery
After major heart surgery to repair a torn aorta (the body's largest blood vessel), patients often have trouble digesting food and moving their bowels. …
Read MoreVitamin B-12 May Help Hearts After Heart-Lung Machine Surgery
When doctors use a heart-lung machine during heart surgery, sometimes patients' blood vessels stop working properly afterward, causing dangerous low blood …
Read MoreVitamin D May Help Prevent Heart Rhythm Problems After Heart Surgery
Researchers looked at four studies involving 694 people who had heart bypass surgery to see if taking vitamin D could prevent a common heart rhythm problem …
Read More