Open Heart Bypass Surgery
Heart bypass surgery creates a new route, called a bypass, for blood and oxygen to reach your heart.
See also:
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Heart bypass surgery - minimally invasive -
Angioplasty and stent placement
Alternative Names
Off-pump coronary artery bypass; OPCAB; Beating heart surgery; Bypass surgery - heart; CABG; Coronary artery bypass graft; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Coronary bypass surgery
Description
Before your surgery you will receive
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Bypass Surgery Patient Guide: Heart Bypass Information
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Open heart surgery
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Open heart surgery is any surgery where the chest is opened and surgery is done on the heart muscle, valves, arteries, or other parts of the heart... Read more »
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Heart Bypass Surgery
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
This is an operation in which cardiac surgeons remove part of the blood vessel (graft) from somewhere else in the body, and attach it to a narrowed... Read more »
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