The surgeon removes a healthy blood vessel—often from the leg—and attaches (grafts) it to the narrowed or blocked artery. The new blood vessel bypasses the diseased artery to increase blood flow to ...

During an angioplasty procedure, doctors open the blocked artery with a balloon catheter and insert a stent to keep the artery open and blood flowing effectively. The stent permanently remains in ...

"For decades, stents have been, and remain, the best way to immediately improve the blood flow in the blocked coronary arteries of people with acute heart attacks," Wright says. Stents may help ...

This article also looks at possible risks, success rates, and more. When a surgeon only has to bypass a single blocked artery, this is a single bypass operation. If more than one artery has a ...