Once a patient has a heart attack, they may undergo a complex surgical procedure. ... Angioplasties can be performed on many blocked arteries during the same procedure. ... The surgical procedure than proceeds when the coronary artery is cut below the blocked areas, which have been identified prior to surgery by the cardiac catheterization. ... The surgical procedure, which includes prepping time to when the surgery is over, ranges from 4-6 hours long. ... Although the three-step surgical procedure is complex and lengthy, the success rate has been very high and surgery has been noticeably bene...

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One is surgical procedure, I will tell you about a few of them. There is a major surgery procedure where you open the chest surgically and operate on the heart itself called coronary artery bypass. Bypass surgery is a major surgical operation. ... (J.F., P.59) Another surgical procedure is a heart transplant in which the diseased heart is almost completely removed and replaced with a healthy heart. ... (C.A., P.91) Here is another non-surgical procedure called atherectomy, it is where a tube is inserted into the narrowed coronary artery, a balloon is inflated to hold tube in place and blades s...

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One is surgical procedure, I will tell you about a few of them. There is a major surgery procedure where you open the chest surgically and operate on the heart itself called coronary artery bypass. Bypass surgery is a major surgical operation. ... (J.F., P.59) Another surgical procedure is a heart transplant in which the diseased heart is almost completely removed and replaced with a healthy heart. ... (C.A., P.91) Here is another non-surgical procedure called atherectomy, it is where a tube is inserted into the narrowed coronary artery, a balloon is inflated to hold tube in place and blades s...

• Word Count: 1965
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• Grade Level: High School