1.   Most commonly, there is a proliferative lesion so that much of the lung is pink and rubbery and does not collapse when the chest is opened.

2.   And opening the chest still gives the surgeon the best view and the most room to maneuver.

3.   Both make products used to do open-heart bypass surgery without cracking open the chest.

4.   After nearly an hour of preparatory work opening the chest and removing the artery and vein to be used in the bypass procedure, he gave way to Cooley.

5.   Crack open the chest and get Dr. Debakey on the phone.

6.   He exercises several times a day, opening his chest, stretching his calves and hamstrings, applying resistance to arm, back and stomach muscles.

7.   He told Boltz the problem was ordinarily beyond the scope of balloon angioplasty, which involves threading a catheter through the groin instead of cracking open the chest.

8.   Instead of opening the chest, four to eight small openings, or ports, are cut between the ribs.

9.   Instead of opening her chest to close a hole in her heart, a tiny patch was threaded through a vein to her heart and centered in the opening.

10.   She was taken to surgery to open her chest so doctors could look at her lungs, according to HCFA reports.