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Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

In coronary artery disease (CAD), the arteries that supply blood and oxygen to your heart muscle grow hardened and narrowed. You may try treatments such as lifestyle changes, medicines, and angioplasty, a procedure to open the arteries. If these treatments don't help, you may need coronary artery bypass surgery.

The surgery creates a new path for blood to flow to the heart. The surgeon takes a healthy piece of vein from the leg or artery from the chest or wrist. Then the surgeon attaches it to the coronary artery, just above and below the narrowed area or blockage. This allows blood to bypass (get around) the blockage. Sometimes people need more than one bypass.

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  7. What Is Coronary Bypass Surgery? (American Heart Association) - PDF  
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  8. Heart Procedures and Surgeries (American Heart Association)  
    ... procedures and surgeries, such as stent, Angioplasty, PCI, CABG, minimally invasive CABG, Laser Angioplasty, Artificial Heart Valve Surgery, Atherectomy, Bypass ...
  9. What Is Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting? From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)  
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