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What Is Coronary Bypass Surgery

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The procedure involves taking a healthy blood vessel from your leg arm or chest and connecting it below and above the blocked arteries in your heart. There are two main approaches. Figure A Shows The Location Of The Heart Figure B Shows How Vein And Artery Bypass Grafts Ar In 2020 Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Arteries Cardiac Catheterization The result is that more blood and oxygen can flow to your heart. What is coronary bypass surgery . Coronary artery bypass surgery also known as coronary artery bypass graft surgery and colloquially heart bypass or bypass surgery is a surgical procedure to restore normal blood flow to an obstructed coronary artery. It may be needed when the arteries supplying blood to heart tissue called coronary arteries are narrowed or blocked. Why they re carried out like all organs in the body the heart needs a constant supply of blood. It diverts blood around narrowed or clogged parts of the major arteries to improve blood flow and oxygen suppl...