Often called CABG or "cabbage" surgery; the doctor uses veins or arteries from other parts of the body to help blood flow around a blockage in your heart.
An operation in which a section of vein or artery is used to bypass a blockage in a coronary artery; performed to prevent myocardial infarction (heart attack) and to relieve angina.
The surgical procedure to treat narrowing or " stenosis" of the coronary arteries is called coronary artery bypass or CABG (pronounced "cabbage"). To accomplish this, cardiothoracic surgeons create bypasses around the obstructions in the coronary arteries with arteries or veins from elsewhere in the body to improve blood flow to the heart.
Vein or artery grafted surgically to permit blood to travel from the aorta to a branch of the coronary artery at a point past an obstruction.
Surgical procedure used to restore blood flow to a part of the heart; a blood vessel from the patient's leg or chest is grafted to a coronary artery to bypass an obstructed area of the artery; also called CABG.
Open heart operation which will return blood flow to the heart by having the blood in the coronary artery pass through a conduit, or a blood vessel graft, bypassing the obstruction of the artery.
An operation which uses arteries and or veins to bypass narrowings or occlusions in the coronary arteries. This is usually done using the heart lung machine but can be done with the heart beating (see OPCAB ).