During most open-heart surgeries it is necessary to connect you to a heart-lung bypass machine. During this time, your heart will stop. This machine takes over the work of the heart, oxygenating your ...

Coronary bypass surgery is one treatment option ... Your surgeon will make an incision in your chest to access your heart and will use a machine to take over blood flow while your heart is ...

For these types of surgery, a heart-lung bypass machine is not needed. (For open-chest surgery, a heart-lung machine is needed to circulate the blood and to add oxygen to it.) Other techniques use ...

So they put Lev'Veon on a heart-lung bypass machine until they could implant ... like a complete replacement of what the normal heart anatomy is, just in an artificial way," Lancaster said.