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Heart of the Matter: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
In the procedure known as coronary artery bypass graft surgery, blood vessels are taken from another part of the body and grafted to the aorta, the large artery emerging from the hart. The other ends of the vessels are grafted to the coronary arteri...
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Heart of the Matter: Angioplasty Procedure, The
If only one or two of a patient's coronary arteries are narrowed, a physician may suggest an angioplasty procedure. Dr. David Faxon was a young physician in Boston in the early 1980s when he attended a session in which Andreas Greuentzig presented a...