1.   When the only alternative was standard bypass surgery, most might have gone with angioplasty.

2.   Will he urgently encourage all boards to purchase coronary artery bypass surgery and other cardiac surgery from Great Britain?

3.   Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes?

4.   Almost a decade after heart bypass surgery, he finally feels he has recovered.

5.   Among the operations that might be postponed are those for cosmetic procedures, cardiac bypass surgery, heart valve replacements, hip replacements and colon surgery.

6.   And some surgeons are now doing bypass surgery without stopping the heart in a procedure that may result in less damage to the brain.

7.   And while stents may delay the need for bypass surgery for years, they have not yet been shown to reduce death rates.

8.   Angioplasty requires placement of an inflatable balloon in a closed-up artery, and bypass surgery requires grafting another blood vessel on to the diseased artery.

9.   Another suggestion was more rigorous monitoring for drops in blood pressure during bypass surgery that could lead to brain damage.

10.   Andy Pettitte was a question mark before his father underwent triple bypass surgery on Thursday.