What keeps coronary artery bypasses from leaking?
I had a bypass 7 years ago and always wanted to know when the surgeon sews the vein on the heart how does it not leak?
Submitted by Robert from Ohio on 07/16/2014
This depends on the clotting ability of the patient’s blood and the technical performance of the anastomoses (suturing the graft on the heart to the artery) by the surgeon.