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| Rare cardiac surgery performed in Oman (AME Info) |
| A team of doctors at Oman's Sultan Qaboos University Hospital recently performed a rare cardiac surgery for the first time in the Middle East. The procedure involved coronary artery bypass surgery carried out on a beating heart through a left anterior (just below the heart) Thoracotomy (the making of an incision in the chest wall) for triple vessel disease. |
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| Yaz has triple bypass (Boston Globe) |
| The greatest living Red Sox player, New England icon Carl Yastrzemski, underwent emergency triple-bypass surgery yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital after being diagnosed with coronary artery disease. |
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| A Better Route for Clearing Arteries (ThirdAge) |
| Aug. 22, 2008 -- Clogged coronary arteries can be more readily accessed through a patient's wrist rather than routing a catheter through the leg, according to the first large-scale study of one of the world's most common cardiac procedures. |
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