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Published online 29 May 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010531-6
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Roundabout route to heart bypass
Blocked coronary arteries can be treated with just a small incision in the leg.
Coronary artery bypass operations that do not involve invasive chest surgery are no longer just a pipe dream. A group of heart specialists from Germany, Japan and the USA have used tubes inserted in a patient's leg and threaded up the main artery to the heart to operate on a frequently untreatable form of coronary artery disease1.
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