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If you have coronary artery disease (CAD), the arteries that supply blood and oxygen to the heart muscle become hardened and narrowed. If lifestyle changes and medicines don't help, your doctor may recommend coronary artery bypass surgery.

The surgery uses a piece of a vein from the leg or artery from the chest or wrist. The surgeon attaches this to the coronary artery above and below the narrowed area or blockage. This allows blood to bypass the blockage. Some people need more than one bypass. (Read more)

Illustration of the heart featuring the right coronary artery
Results 1 - 10 of 152 for coronary artery bypass surgery
  1. Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (National Library of Medicine)
    ... medicines don't help, your doctor may recommend coronary artery bypass surgery. The surgery uses a piece of a ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/coronaryarterybypasssurgery.html - Health Topics
  2. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Interactive Tutorial (Patient Education Institute)
    X-Plain™ Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Reference Summary Introduction Sometimes people have serious problems with their heart and the arteries that go into ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/.../coronaryarterybypassgraft/htm/index.htm - External Health Links
  3. Heart bypass surgery
    Off-pump coronary artery bypass; OPCAB; Beating heart surgery; Bypass surgery - heart; CABG; Coronary artery bypass graft; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Coronary bypass ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002946.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  4. Heart bypass surgery - minimally invasive
    Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass; MIDCAB; Robot assisted coronary artery bypass; RACAB; Keyhole heart surgery ... artery disease. It can cause chest pain ( angina ). Coronary artery bypass surgery can be used to treat coronary artery ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007012.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  5. JAMA Patient Page: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (American Medical Association) - PDF
    ... JAMA Sharon Parmet; Cassio Lynm; Richard M. Glass Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Supplementary material http://jama.ama-assn.org/ ... T D I S E A S E Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting C oronary artery bypass grafting ( CABG ) is ...
    jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/299/15/1856.pdf - External Health Links
  6. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
    What Is Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting? Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a type of surgery called revascularization (re-VAS-kyu-lar-i-ZA-shun), used to improve blood flow to ...
    www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/cabg/cabg_whatis.html - External Health Links
  7. What Is Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)? (Society of Thoracic Surgeons)
    '); break; } } CABG Information Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) Tell a Friend New Study Shows Superiority of CABG over Drug Eluting Stents Description Author: Thoralf M. ...
    www.sts.org/.../patientinformation/adultcardiacsurgery/cabg - External Health Links
  8. ClinicalTrials.gov: Coronary Artery Bypass From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)
    clinicaltrials.gov/.../intervention=coronary+artery+bypass - External Health Links
  9. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Video (OR-Live)
    www.or-live.com/.../nlm-flash/geh_2044/rnh.cfm?id=695 - External Health Links
  10. Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass: A Beating Heart Procedure Video (OR-Live)
    www.or-live.com/.../nlm-flash/meh_1789/rnh.cfm?id=621 - External Health Links
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