Cleveland Clinic research: Prior chest radiation grows risk of death after heart surgery

Patients who have open heart surgery for heart disease caused by radiation cancer treatment are nearly twice as likely to die in the years following their surgery compared to similar patients who did not undergo radiation treatment, according to new research from Cleveland Clinic published today in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/cc-…