Resume sexual activities in six-eight weeks

If you can walk normally at your usual pace, you can also climb two flights of stairs at your usual pace

Generally, you should be able to sit in a chair after 1 day, walk after 3 days, and walk up and downstairs after 5 or 6 days. Most people make a full recovery within 12 weeks of the operation.

The doctor will advise you to run investigations after 6 months, 1 year and share the reports electronically to review the progress and condition of the heart.

The surgeon must find a balance between preventing clots and having a patient bleed too much during surgery.

For some patients who routinely take a blood thinner prior to surgery, the dose of blood thinners that are typically taken each day is stopped at least 24 hours, and up to a week, prior to the surgery.

You will be given a discharge summary at the time of discharge from the hospital. This document has all relevant details for your local doctor to follow you up post-surgery.

But your local doctor can also get in touch with treating surgeons through us. Talk to your case manager and we will be happy to facilitate.

During CABG, a surgical team will take one or more blood vessels from another part of your body and create newer blood vessels to take blood into the heart.

You'll usually need to stay in the hospital for around 7 days after having a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) so medical staff can closely monitor your recovery. ICU for 1-2 days.

During this time, you may be attached to various tubes, drips, and drains that provide you with fluids and allow blood and urine to drain away.

Those who have had a heart valve repair or replacement surgery or coronary artery bypass grafts (open heart surgery) can usually fly after 4 weeks.

Smoking is absolutely prohibited post-surgery. Occasional and moderate drinking is generally allowed.

Recovering from a coronary artery bypass graft procedure takes time and everyone recovers at slightly different speeds.

Generally, you should be able to sit in a chair after 1 day, walk after 3 days, and walk up and downstairs after 5 or 6 days. Most people make a full recovery within 12 weeks of the operation.

Occasional drinking post-CABG is acceptable. It is important for the patient to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Since coronary artery disease is a lifestyle disease and can very well be managed by a change in lifestyle post-surgery.

Possible risks of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) include:
Bleeding during or after the surgery.
Blood clots that can cause heart attack, stroke, or lung problems.
Infection at the incision site.
Pneumonia.
Breathing problems.
Pancreatitis.
Kidney failure.
Abnormal heart rhythm

Minimally invasive surgery also called keyhole surgery.

Bypass surgery is generally considered the better option in cases where the patient's arteries are blocked in multiple areas or where their left main coronary artery is narrowed.

Sometimes patients will prefer the less invasive angioplasty as they would like to resume work sooner.

CABG in today's world has become a very routine procedure. Most doctors we work with operate about 20-25 such patients every month. The success rate of CABG surgery is easily more than 95%.

That is absolutely right. If your surgeon felt, he will not be able to achieve the desired results in minimally invasive surgery, he will not offer it in the first place.

In most cases, minimally invasive surgery can be offered, but if your surgeon is insisting on open surgery, there have to be medical reasons for it.

You should clarify all such apprehensions during your clinical evaluation with the treating surgeon.

Coronary artery disease is generally an old age problem and hence people of up to 70-75 years of age can safely undergo the procedure.

A series of small incisions are made between your ribs on the left side of your chest, directly over the artery to be bypassed. The incisions usually are about 3 inches long.

Taking veins from the legs has traditionally been done but with advanced techniques, doctors do it endoscopically and hence NO more cuts other than chest incision.

The most important is that the need for bypass surgery arises as to the result of a preventable condition, namely, coronary artery disease.

If you take care of yourself, eat well, exercise and take heart-healthy supplements, the chances are good that you may be able to avoid a bypass.