Coronary bypass surgery is undoubtedly a very significant achievement of modern medical
science. But one ponders over certain pertinent question such as the cost involved and the ultimate
benefit.
The human heart is nothing but a four-chambered muscular pump which supplies blood to all
parts of the body. Being an active pump, the heart itself requires a lot of energy and receives its
own blood supply via certain vessels called coronary arteries. By a process called
‘atherosclerosis’, fat particles are deposited on the inner wall of the lumen of the coronary arteries
which eventually reduce the size of the lumen and produce obstruction to the free flow of blood.
The portion of the heart which suffers from lack of blood supply becomes weaker as a pump and
gives rise to a typical chest pain called ‘angina’. When such blockage is total, the corresponding
heart muscle dies and then one suffers a “heart attack”. In all these circumstances, heart surgeons
perform a special type of operation known as ‘coronary bypass surgery’.
In this surgery a blood vessel is taken (usually from the leg of the patient) and then grafted on
the heart in such a way that when blood flows through, it bypasses the narrow segment of the
diseased coronary artery. The concept is to divert the flow from the narrow artery, inside which
there is already a ‘traffic congestion’ and in this respect it is synonymous to road bypass.
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Coronary bypass surgery, which is an achievement of modern science, is undoubtedly very significant.
A special type of operation is performed by the heart surgeons
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