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They bypassed his blocked arteries, with arteries taken from his mammary glands, instead of his vein from his legs, which is a more common procedure. COIMBATORE: A 60-year-old man, who was diagnosed with multiple blocks in both his coronary arteries, approached a hospital in Coimbatore stating that he was ready to undergo any treatment provided there was no blood transfusion involved in it. The man, who is a Jehovah's Witness by faith, was hesitant to even have his own blood taken in advance, frozen and re-transfused into him. "His condition, which included multiple blocks, did not let us perform a stent angioplasty or a balloon angioplasty," Dr Thiagarajamurthy said. For followers of Jehovah's Witnesses, transfusion of blood is against their religious belief.After a lot of analysis, cardiothoracic surgeons at Sri Ramakrishna Hospitals managed to perform a coronary bypass surgery on the man without giving him any blood transfusion, around three weeks back..