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2. Country singer Mark Chesnutt just underwent emergency ... - AOL

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   Country music singer Mark Chesnutt is recovering after undergoing emergency quadruple bypass heart surgery, the singer shared in an Instagram post. Chesnutt, 60, was taken to the hospital due to a ...

3. Coronary artery bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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   The first uses a cardiopulmonary bypass machine, a machine which takes over the functions of the heart and lungs during surgery by circulating blood and oxygen. With the heart in cardioplegic arrest , harvested arteries and veins are used to connect across problematic regions—a construction known as surgical anastomosis .

4. 'Saved my life': Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital heart ... - AOL

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   The heart surgeon told Goodson he had a choice of skipping surgery and facing possible massive heart attack or pursuing a quadruple bypass that has a 98% success rate. "It was a pretty easy choice ...

5. Vessel harvesting - Wikipedia

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   Coronary artery bypass graft surgery has been in practice since the 1960s. Historically, vessels—such as the great saphenous vein in the leg or the radial artery in the arm—were obtained using a traditional "open" procedure that required a single, long incision from groin to ankle, or a "bridging" technique that used three or four smaller incisions.

6. Bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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   In on-pump bypass surgery, a heart-lung machine is used; in off-pump bypass surgery, the surgeon stabilizies the heart without use of the machine. [3] Weight loss or Bariatric surgery: Vertical banded gastroplasty surgery or "stomach stapling", the upper part of the stomach is permanently stapled to create a smaller pouch

7. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar undergoes quadruple bypass surgery ... - AOL

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   L.A. Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar underwent a quadruple coronary bypass surgery on Thursday after being admitted to UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center with cardiovascular disease earlier ...