Cardiac Bypass Surgery
Cardiac bypass surgery is usually required when one or more of the coronary arteries become partially or totally blocked causing the heart to not get an adequate blood supply. This is called ischemic heart disease or coronary artery disease (CAD). It can cause heart pain (angina). Cardiac bypass surgery creates a detour or "bypass" around the blocked part of a coronary artery to restore the blood supply to the heart muscle.
Cardiac Bypass Surgery at the Heart Center
Heart Center physicians have been performing cardiac bypass surgery since its inception, and helped to pioneer open-heart surgery in North Carolina. Although our patients are increasingly older and with more severe disease, our results following surgery have remained impressive, largely due to improved techniques, equipment and postoperative care.
Learn more about cardiac bypass surgery at the Heart Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has been performing cardiac surgery since the 1940s and helped pioneer open-heart surgery in North Carolina. Through the years, Medical Center cardiologists and heart surgeons have made major contributions in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.