What about the vein in coronary by-pass surgery?

Subject: What about the vein in coronary by-pass surgery?

Date: Mon Apr 9 11:14:58 2001
Posted by Ashutosh
Grade level: 10-12 School: Dropout
City: Jaipur State/Province: Rajasthan Country: India
Area of science: Anatomy
ID: 986829298.An

Message:


Coronary bypass surgery usually involves taking a piece of the vein from 
someone's leg and grafting it around a clot in the coronary artery so that the 
blood flow to the heart is regulated, right? Now how come that when you remove 
that section of vein from a person's leg, it has no ill effects? I mean, 
shouldn't it be affecting blood flow to the leg or something?

Re: What about the vein in coronary by-pass surgery?

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