What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

Saving lives and saving face

“Why had these two major studies come to such different conclusions? According to one of the main researchers, bypass surgery had been set up to fail”

People with blocked arteries in the heart are usually told they need open heart, or bypass, surgery. The procedure, properly known as coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), is recommended by the American Heart Association, among others, as the best way to keep blood flowing to the heart, especially if the blockage is in the arteries on the left side of the heart.

But cardiologists started to change their advice in 2016 and were encouraged to do so by groups such as the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), which had started to recommend that stents—tiny tubes

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