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coronary artery bypass graft

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Noun1.coronary artery bypass graft - 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
CABG, coronary bypass, coronary bypass surgery
open-heart surgery - heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired
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and his colleagues reviewed the outcomes of 267,089 coronary artery bypass graft operations done at 439 hospitals during 2000 and 2001.
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Patients in New York state who undergo coronary artery bypass graft surgery and are covered by either private managed-care or Medicare managed-care insurance are significantly less likely than patients with fee-for-service insurance to have the surgery done in hospitals with lower mortality rates, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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These incidents included death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or revascularization procedures including percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft.
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