A WellSpan York Hospital cardiologist was part of a team that successfully performed a coronary artery bypass without cutting the chest wall, according to an article shared by WellSpan Health.
The procedure was performed by a team at the National Institutes of Health and Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta. The approach is intended for high-risk heart patients who may not be candidates for traditional open-heart surgery.
Christopher Bruce, an interventional cardiologist at WellSpan York Hospital and NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, was the first author of the study. Bruce is also an adjunct assistant professor of cardiology at Emory School of Medicine…