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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they underwent open-heart bypass surgery ... and a heart-lung machine takes ...

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.