Medical Record Preoperative Diagnoses : Critical aortic stenosis, CAD, hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2 Postoperative Diagnoses: Same Procedure...

Medical Record

Preoperative Diagnoses: Critical aortic stenosis, CAD, hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2

Postoperative Diagnoses: Same

Procedure : CABG x2

Operation: Coronary artery bypass graft x2 accomplished using reverse saphenous vein graft to the left anterior descending artery and reverse saphenouse vein graft to the obtuse marginal artery.

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