Also called keyhole surgery.
Recovery time is much faster.
The drug most often used to treat angina. Heart bypass surgery which is performed on a beating heart, negating the need for the patient to be placed on a heart-lung machine. A small, battery-operated device that helps the heart beat in a regular rhythm. It can replace a defective natural pacemaker or blocked pathway. A catheter with a deflated balloon on its tip is passed into the narrowed part of the blocked artery.