Open heart surgery or stents?

YOU have been told that you have severe blockage of your heart arteries and instructed to undergo open heart surgery or coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). Do you really have a choice?

Tough decisions

Mr A was a well-known person in his country who had severe narrowing of his three major heart arteries, including the left main artery which constitutes the major blood supply to the left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of the heart which is responsible for pumping blood out of the heart to the rest of the body.