When someone has bypass surgery, what does that mean?!


Question: It is officially referred to CABG, Coronary Artery Bypass Graph, and it is a medical procedure where a vein is removed from the leg and used to bypass an occluded portion(s) of one or several of the hearts main arteries by graphing the vein to the artery on both sides of the blockage thus bypassing the blockage.


Answers: It is officially referred to CABG, Coronary Artery Bypass Graph, and it is a medical procedure where a vein is removed from the leg and used to bypass an occluded portion(s) of one or several of the hearts main arteries by graphing the vein to the artery on both sides of the blockage thus bypassing the blockage.

Coronary artery bypass surgery, also coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and colloquially heart bypass or bypass surgery is a surgical procedure performed to relieve angina and reduce the risk of death from coronary artery disease. Arteries or veins from elsewhere in the patient's body are grafted to the coronary arteries to bypass atherosclerotic narrowings and improve the blood supply to the coronary circulation supplying the myocardium (heart muscle). This surgery is usually performed with the heart stopped, necessitating the usage of cardiopulmonary bypass; techniques are available to perform CABG on a beating heart.

Like A Heart Bypass?
Cause if so there is a dead part of your heart where they need to get around(bypass) the dead part to connect the live part of the heart to another piece of the heart.

They take a vein from say the leg and by-pas effected area

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bypass surgery is

basically the surgeon is redirecting veins, arteries, and intestines to help the patient. for example , gastric bypass cuts off a part of the stomach and redirects the tube to the intestines that BYPASSES the stomach

it means that takeand crack there chest open, cut there hart out, put it on a table, whyll they are cleaning the clots. then put it back in

It means that the doctors go into the heart and by-pass the blocked parts of the arteries and create new ways for the blood to get back and forth to the heart. They usually do this by placing a new piece using an synthetic piece for where the blocked part was.

bypass is a word derived from a a shortcut or a bridge. Take an example two roads flowing horizontally and if you want a road crossing the two roads you need a bypass to cross it over. Thats a term used in medical books as to CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting) . Means the blocked vessels inside the heart has to have a bypass for the blood to flow normally between the vessels or otherwise its a Cardiac Arrest (Heart Attack).





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