What is Bypass Surgery?

" A coronary bypass is a type of heart surgery that reroute blood vessels around our arteries that have become clogged -- built."

" Bypass surgery is done and ordered to route blood around and destruction. In the coronary arteries which are the arteries that supply blood to the heart. They're actually very small arteries. Oh it doesn't take a lot of cholesterol buildup in the wall of the artery to -- an artery had not."

" Surgeons will take blood vessel like an artery from the chest wall for a vein from the leg and connect the blood vessel above and below the blockage to bypass it."

" There are two major ways that bypass surgery done nowadays and people will hear that term. Bypass surgery traditionally bypass surgery has always been done with heart lung machine. So that's the heart could be -- And the -- are not being inflated in the heart lung machine is doing those functions. While the hard as absolutely stationery. To allow very precise particulars. The sewing. While the bypass that are being attacked. But in recent years with advances in technology there had been. Piece of equipment developed that allowed you to stabilize. The small area of heart that you're working. And to do the -- bypass operation. Without the heart lung machine and that's known as off. Bypass surgery. "

" Lifestyle modifications are important after surgery so that the new blood vessels don't become blocked as well."

" How common lifestyle modifications. Are correcting all the bad things that people have been doing before. Such as not smoking. They should lose weight and watch alternate diet -- eat and eat healthier diet."

" Bypass surgery is still a major procedure. But most people can be fully recovered and active in -- little two month."

" My advice to anyone who had bypass surgery. -- to enjoy a lot because that's the purpose of having surgery so that they can get back to full and normal activity."