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Bypass surgery |
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Bypass surgery A surgical procedure that grafts blood vessels onto arteries to reroute the blood flow around blockages in the arteries (arteriosclerosis). Mentioned in: Cardiac Rehabilitation |
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While generating robust vessel cells from elderly donors has been difficult, researchers took isolated blood vessel cells from the veins of five elderly patients following coronary bypass surgery and successfully engineered new blood vessels for all of the patients studied. I differ with those who say nothing could have been done earlier to diagnose and reverse the plaque formation leading to former President Bill Clinton's bypass surgery (and before him. 14 Journal of the American Medical Association, the scientists report that the average death rate within 30 days of getting bypass surgery was 2. |
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