CABG

arteries, especially if your heart’s pumping action has already been weakened.

CABG also may be an option if you have blockages in the heart that can’t be treated with angioplasty. In this situation, CABG is considered more effective than other types of treatment.

If you’re a candidate for CABG, the goals of having the surgery include:

  • Improving your quality of life and decreasing angina and other CHD symptoms
  • Allowing you to resume a more active lifestyle
  • Improving the pumping action of your heart if it has been damaged by a heart attack
  • Lowering the risk of a heart attack (in some patients, such as those who have diabetes)
  • Improving your chance of survival
You may need repeat surgery if the grafted arteries or veins become blocked, or if new blockages develop in arteries that weren’t blocked before. Taking medicines as prescribed and making lifestyle changes as your doctor recommends can lower the chance of a graft becoming blocked.

In people who are candidates for the surgery, the results usually are excellent. Following CABG, 85 percent of people have significantly reduced symptoms, less risk of future heart attacks, and a decreased chance of dying within 10 years.
BEATING HEART BYPASS SURGERY IN ACUTE MI (heart attack)
On-pump beating-heart coronary artery bypass grafting has the possibility to eliminate intraoperative global myocardial ischemia and to be an acceptable surgical option for acute myocardial infarction associated with lower postoperative mortality and morbidity.