• Question: My granddad had quadruple heart bypass surgery. Is there a limit to how many bypasses a patient can have?

    Asked by 544hrtd42 to Cristina, Gemma, Loan, Michael, Praveen on 13 Nov 2015.
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      Michael Schneider answered on 13 Nov 2015:

      If you mean “how many, at the same time” I’d say six, but few people get that many. That’s because the main blood vessels covering the surface of the heart are three in number. The longest ones occasionally get two bypasses. The American TV star David Letterman had a quintuple bypass (5).

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