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10 unusual facts about Coronary artery bypass surgery


1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team

However in August, Majors underwent emergency quintuple bypass surgery, and as a result Phillip Fulmer was named interim head coach.

Amazing Blondel

As of 2005, Terry Wincott had a successful heart bypass operation, which curtailed the band's plans for future concerts.

Buddy Miller

While on tour, Miller suffered a heart attack in Baltimore on February 19, 2009 following his performance as part of the MammoJam Music Festival and underwent triple bypass surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital on 20 February.

Dan Reeves

Reeves coached the Falcons to a 12–2 record before being hospitalized for the final two regular season games to undergo quadruple-bypass heart surgery in December.

Gurdial Singh Dhillon

Having undergone heart bypass surgery, Dr. Dhillon died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi on 23 March 1992 following a heart attack.

John Betts

Betts, who previously had a quadruple heart bypass in 1994, was hospitalized in early 2005 with what was thought to be a minor heart attack forcing the government to delay several votes.

Peter Seivewright

According to Britain's The Daily Telegraph, Seivewright underwent a quadruple-bypass operation in 2000, and used a work by Johann Sebastian Bach for purposes of music therapy.

Richard Leroy Walters

He had two operations on his legs to improve his circulation, two operations on his eyes, and a quadruple bypass heart operation.

Roger Jupp

In the following year he was diagnosed with a serious heart condition requiring a triple bypass and ill health forced his resignation in 2005.

Surgical anastomosis

While an anastomosis may be end-to-end, equally it could be performed side-to-side or end-to-side depending on the circumstances of the required reconstruction or bypass.


F. Mason Sones

In 1967, Sones's Cleveland Clinic colleague, Dr. René Favaloro, performed the world's first coronary bypass surgery.

Reperfusion therapy

Categories of reperfusion therapy thus include clot-busting (thrombolytic) drugs and procedures to open arteries with stents, or to graft arteries around blockages.