Bypass surgery

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Bypass surgery refers to a class of surgery involving rerouting a tubular body part.{{cite book|author1=Mary Jo Bowie|author2=Regina M. Schaffer|title=Understanding ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Coding: A Worktext|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1hd5Rut2vXQC&pg=PA382|accessdate=8 June 2011|date=15 June 2010|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-4354-8158-9|pages=382–}}

Types include:

• Vascular bypass surgery such as coronary artery bypass surgery, a heart operation, in which the internal thoracic artery and great saphanous vein are used to bypass the coronary artery.{{Cite web |date=2024-03-08 |title=Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery |url=https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/coronary-artery-bypass-graft-surgery |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=www.hopkinsmedicine.org |language=en}}
• Cardiopulmonary bypass, a technique used in coronary artery bypass surgery
• In on-pump bypass surgery, a heart-lung machine is used; in off-pump bypass surgery, the surgeon stabilizies the heart without use of the machine.{{Cite web |title=Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery |url=https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/17289-off-pump-bypass-surgery |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=Cleveland Clinic |language=en}}
• Weight loss or Bariatric surgery:
• Vertical banded gastroplasty surgery or "stomach stapling", the upper part of the stomach is permanently stapled to create a smaller pouch
• Adjustable gastric band or "lap band", a band creates a pocket in the stomach that can be adjusted with a port placed just under the skin
• Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, the small intestine is connected to the upper part of the stomach
• Partial ileal bypass surgery, shortening the final portion of the small intestine
• Popliteal bypass surgery, to treat diseased leg arteries above or below the knee
• Jejunojejunostomy, surgery that connects two portions of small intestine and is no longer used
• Ileojejunal bypass, surgery that connects the middle and final portions of the small intestine that was experimental and is no longer used.