11.   For example, high-blood-pressure medications now keep some patients from having heart bypass surgery.

12.   For many people who have had coronary artery bypass surgery, regaining emotional strength is a tougher challenge than recuperating physically.

13.   He had undergone heart bypass surgery earlier this year at New York Hospital, said Richard Aurelio, a family spokesman.

14.   He had called Skowron every day three months ago when Skowron had double heart bypass surgery.

15.   He said recently for the first time that he resigned because of health reasons, a heart condition that required double bypass surgery.

16.   His brother Gary said the cause of death was not immediately known, but Holmes had undergone quadruple bypass heart surgery two weeks ago.

17.   However, he bypassed surgery and slowly worked the knee back into shape.

18.   Hundreds of thousands of Americans have major heart bypass surgery every year and medical experts say an alternative could save billions of dollars in healthcare costs.

19.   In recent years he has had heart bypass surgery and is now recovering from a broken hip.

20.   It began with a heart attack six years ago, followed by quadruple bypass surgery.