Definitions for "Coronary bypass surgery"
Keywords:  bypass, graft, cabg, reroutes, artery
An operation to bypass a narrowed section or sections of coronary arteries and improve the blood supply to the heart.
open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart
Surgery that reroutes, or “bypasses,” blood around clogged coronary arteries and improves the supply of blood and oxygen to the heart muscle. It’s sometimes called CABG (for coronary artery bypass graft) or “cabbage.
Keywords:  creutzfeldt, jacob, disease
Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease