Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABG) or ‘cabbage,’ slang for coronary artery bypass graft, was introduced in 1977 and is now done on more than a million patients annually. There is a good deal of controversy over whether it is now being used unnecessarily to treat coronary disease that could be controlled just as effectively by more conservative, less costly medical therapies. In general, it is recommended for people with disabling angina that cannot be contr
