Patients laud less invasive heart surgery

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Cracking open his chest, harvesting leg veins and wiring his chest closed again — the procedure sounded more like medieval torture than the traditional surgery to correct blocked arteries.

“Something’s wrong here,” said Barry Anderson, a 65-year-old Havre de Grace resident who went searching for an alternative to that type of invasive heart surgery.

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