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2. 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 .

3. 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 ...

4. 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.

5. 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 ...

6. Off-pump coronary artery bypass - Wikipedia

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   Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB), or beating-heart surgery, is a form of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery performed without cardiopulmonary bypass (heart-lung machine) as a treatment for coronary heart disease. It was primarily developed in the early 1990s by Dr. Amano Atsushi.

7. Cardiac surgery - Wikipedia

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   Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is a surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to correct congenital heart disease; or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes, including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, [1] and ...

8. Arnold Schwarzenegger Details His Challenging Recovery From ...

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   Arnold Schwarzenegger is reflecting on a particularly challenging time in his life when he had unplanned open heart surgery, and had only a matter of months to recover and be back to top form.In a ...

9. Hybrid coronary revascularization - Wikipedia

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   In a study designed and published by the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute, [6] routine intraoperative completion angiography performed in a fully functional hybrid operation room detected important defects in 97 of 796 (12% of the grafts) venous coronary artery bypass grafts in 366 adult patients (14% of the patients) with complex ...