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What is robotic bypass surgery?

Bypass surgery is often a short form for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), surgery though there are other forms of bypass surgeries as well. Coronary arteries are blood vessels supplying oxygenated blood to the heart muscle. When they develop critical narrowing due to the accumulation of fat or clot inside them, the person gets episodic chest pain. If medications and lifestyle modifications do not improve symptoms, another option is removal of blocks by a procedure known as balloon angioplasty. Some types of blocks in blood vessels cannot be dealt with any of these options and need bypass surgery. In conventional bypass surgery, the breastbone is split under anaesthesia in the operation theatre and the blocks are bypassed either with a vein from the legs or an artery from within the chest. Veins are blood vessels carrying blood with less oxygen, back to the heart. Arteries are blood vessels carrying oxygenated blood to various organs. Robotic surgery aims at avoiding such major procedures in the chest wall using advanced technology. The procedure is known as totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass graft or TECAB. TECAB is done through four or five small ports in the chest wall with the help of da Vinci Robotic Surgical System. The procedure has also been called robotic CABG.