Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or heart bypass surgery is an open heart surgery to relieve the blockages of the arteries of the heart. Coronary artery bypass surgery lasts up to 3 to 6 hours.
president clinton and all of the surgeries and the heart comply cations he has had over the years. explain to us what his medical history has been like. this is somebody who, you know, obviously, received executive-level health care the entire time he was president, and that is well known. he was checked quite frequently while president, and then in 2004, he had this bypass operation, four vessel bypass and surprising to a lot of people at that time that so soon after leaving the white house that he needed a operation like that given how diligent he was about the health care and getting checkups and everything like that as president. after that, he changed a lot of his habits, as has been pretty well known, suzanne. he was exercising with the diet changing. i travelled with him to africa to tanzania and we were, a few of us were having dinner and i made a comment about his selection that night which was a
crushing chest pain as a sign of a heart attack, is really putting off a potential problem. so if anything, i think what we ve learned today is that if you ve gone through a vessel bypass or had stents put in, and you don t feel well and can t explain it, you can t put off seeing a physician, you need to get to the hospital right away. so a general lack of well-being, is that how you describe it? or a general exhaustion? what would you call a key symptom for having a heart potential heart attack is what we re talking about here? you know, when you say as a man who s had heart disease, i just don t feel well, and it s hard to describe, or overwhelming exhaustion or shortness of breath, that s all the more reason to play it safe. we know from autopsies done in children who have died from other illnesses, that that kind of early heart disease in our country can be seen as early as toddlers. so the fact that president clinton had his blood vessels bypassed in 2004, and not ste s