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You can take it from the tissue sort of near the heart,
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it doesn't really serve as important a function,
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and you can bypass it in here.
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Now you have a new artery in place to continue to flow blood.
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That works, but what if you have more than one site of blockage?
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What if you have a blockage here, and a blockage here,
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and a blockage over here,
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and a blockage over here so you need multiple bypasses?
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You don't have enough arteries in order to do that.
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Then, the surgeon will go and take the saphenous vein from your leg.
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It's a large vein in your leg that returns blood that's flowed down to
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your leg back up to the vena cava.