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LIMA to LAD heart bypass

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Hello. Following a recent angiogram I have been told I need a LIMA to LAD bypass. Having looked online it seems like they can do it using minimally invasive techniques and we noticed that the surgeon I have been referred to has that as one of his special interests. May be putting 2 and 2 together and making 7 but wondered if anyone else has had a bypass in this way, and if you have, how it was. Thanks

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hi. I had that plus one other incidental bypass using a leg artery.

I had hoped for the minimally invasive method but sadly it was the traditional route my consultant went down, probs my as I was having a double

Hope you have the best of luck with the procedure.

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