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How manybypass sureries are performed a year and of those are a 6 way?
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Rare: It is very rare to have a bypass surgery of more than 4 targets; that being said, quintuple bypasses are reported occasionally. I haven't heard of a 6-way though, i don't know what the sixth vessel to bypass would be.Cabg.
Answered 4/4/2013
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