The operation will take 2 1/2 to 5 hours. The surgeon will connect you to a coronary bypass machine (heart/lung machine) which assumes the function of your heart and lungs until the surgery is completed. The surgeon takes a blood vessel from your leg and attaches one end to the aorta (the large artery that comes out of the heart) and the other end to the coronary artery below the point where it is blocked — this is the bypass. A blood vessel from within the chest may also be used. Blood now flows freely through the new bypass graft to the heart.
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The operation will take 2 1/2 to 5 hours. The surgeon will connect you to a coronary bypass machine (heart/lung machine) which assumes the function of your heart and lungs until the surgery is completed. The surgeon takes a blood vessel from your leg and attaches one end to the aorta (the large artery that comes out of the heart) and the other end to the coronary artery below the point where it is blocked — this is the bypass. A blood vessel from within the chest may also be used. Blood now flows freely through the new bypass graft to the heart. 
