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What are the common complications that occut during triple bypass heart surgery?
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Mutiple: Heart attack, stroke, death, kidney injury or failure, infection, bleeding, cardiac tamponade, and complications of vascular disease, which can occur in many different areas of the body.
Answered 4/23/2018
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Few: Death bleeding infection sternal infection stroke recurrence graft failure long list but infrequent < 5%.
Answered 3/22/2013
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