11.   Many of those surgeons are working in top positions, including Renat Akchurin, who performed the quintuple bypass on Yeltsin.

12.   Miller, a retired engineer who lives in Woodland Hills, underwent a quintuple bypass eight years ago after suffering a heart attack.

13.   Notable among the New Englanders voting was Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, who underwent quintuple bypass heart surgery last week.

14.   President Boris Yeltsin made a show on Thursday of bouncing back from his quintuple bypass heart operation.

15.   President Boris Yeltsin, who underwent quintuple bypass surgery in November, was hospitalized Wednesday evening after his doctors detected early signs of pneumonia, the Kremlin announced.

16.   The doctors have said little about his exact condition, except that he is recovering nicely from his quintuple bypass operation.

17.   The Russian leader, who underwent quintuple bypass surgery seven weeks ago, faces many problems that have gone unsolved in his absence.

18.   David Letterman left the hospital Wednesday, five days after undergoing quintuple bypass surgery, his spokesman said.

19.   He underwent quintuple bypass surgery last November and was hospitalized with pneumonia in January.

20.   In November, he underwent quintuple bypass surgery, and spent the next few weeks recuperating in a health resort and his country residence.