Doing more with less: Gentler gear, lower mortality.

With the regularity of a healthy heartbeat, advances in the science of bypass surgery over the past decade have made the procedure less intrusive, safer and more effective than ever.

Some breakthroughs — like beating-heart surgery and robotic assistance in the O.R. — grab the headlines. Others, like new technology pioneered at The Cleveland Clinic to reduce the risk of stroke after bypass, have come into widespread use with little fanfare.

As a result of such refinements, mortality from coronary arterial bypass graft (CABG) has been halved in the course of the decade, to below one percent at the Clinic and about two percent nationwide, according to Dr. Delos Cosgrove, M.D., chairman…

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