This means that some of your blood vessels are constricted or closed off and your doctor has determined that you need a stent or a bypass (also called diversion) to improve blood flow to the heart.
Bypass operations offer excellent results in the short and medium term, but long-term success can be limited by the failure of the connection between the two blood vessels. In a standard bypass operation, this connection is manually attached by a surgeon with a suture. The Elana® Anastomotic System is designed to replace manual suturing in bypass surgery with a standardized clip-and-laser connection. This innovation may allow surgeons in the future to perform bypasses through smaller openings in the chest, potentially reducing recovery time and surgical trauma. Our aim is to make coronary bypass surgery less invasive, more predictable, and easier to perform.