Heart surgery overwhelming success.

From: The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England) | Date: July 7, 2008 | Copyright information

SURVIVAL rates for patients having heart surgery at the Northern General Hospital are consistently high, new figures published by a health watchdog reveal.

The Healthcare Comm-ission found that 96 per cent of patients survived bypass surgery, valve replacement, and other types of heart surgery at the hospital between 2004-2007.

Sheffield cardiac surgeons were among the first in the UK to make their figures public, to enable patients to make an informed choice ...

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