Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications...

cardiothoracic surgery is further subspecialized into cardiac surgery (involving the heart and the great vessels) and thoracic surgery (involving the...

is preferable to delay the surgery if possible (three days if the infarction affecting the total thickness of the cardiac muscle, and six hours if it...

hypothyroidism, aortic rupture, autoimmune disease, and complications of cardiac surgery. In Africa, tuberculosis is a relatively common cause. Diagnosis may...

the cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs, the cardiac operating rooms, the cardiac surgery intensive care unit and the intensive cardiac care...

function of heart and/or the lungs. ECMO is useful for post-cardiac surgery patients with cardiac or pulmonary dysfunction, patients with acute pulmonary...

Myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery, also known as MINS, refers to at least one elevated post-operative troponin level presumed to be of an ischemic...

Aortic valve replacement is a cardiac surgery procedure whereby a failing aortic valve is replaced with an artificial heart valve. The aortic valve may...

case, the hybrid surgical technique is becoming more common. A hybrid cardiac surgery can be either a one-stage or two-stage procedure. The difference between...

Physicians who specialize in cardiac surgery are called cardiothoracic surgeons or cardiac surgeons, a specialty of general surgery. All cardiologists in the...

In cardiac physiology, cardiac output (CO), also known as heart output and often denoted by the symbols Q {\displaystyle Q} , Q ˙ {\displaystyle {\dot...

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery, encompasses various aspects of cardiac surgical procedures (aortic valve replacement, mitral valve repair, coronary...

groups in surgery. Christiaan Barnard (cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation) Alfred Blalock (first modern day successful open heart surgery in 1944)...

disopyramide. An implantable cardiac defibrillator may be recommended in those with certain types of irregular heartbeat. Surgery, in the form of a septal...

medicine Bariatric surgery Cardiac surgery Cardiothoracic surgery Colorectal surgery Endocrine surgery Ophthalmology General surgery Neurosurgery Oral...

A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary...

000 heart surgeries. Its purpose as a center was to focus on complex cardiac surgery and heart transplantation. NICS is supplied with 23 cardiac operating...

MD) Cardiac Puncture Catheterization (Morris J. Levy and C. Walton Lillehei) "C. Walton Lillehei, Ph.D., M.D., The Father of Open-Heart Surgery". Regents...

An artificial cardiac pacemaker, commonly referred to as simply a pacemaker, is an implanted medical device that generates electrical pulses delivered...

the British Medical Journal (1968) in an article titled "Too ill for cardiac surgery?". Three had severe aortic valve disease and one had rheumatic heart...

A Cheema as the Project Director of MIC. He has been a pioneer in cardiac surgery within Pakistan and had previously established the Punjab Institute...

eluting stents. Post-cardiac surgery pericardial effusions contribute to 54% of total effusions in the pediatric population. Cardiac inflammation: idiopathic...

intravenous anesthetics, technical/mechanical errors), surgical (e.g., cardiac surgery, trauma/emergency, C-sections), or patient-related (e.g., reduced cardiovascular...

The Journal of Cardiac Surgery is a peer-reviewed medical journal about cardiology and surgery that was established in March 1986. The current editor...

manufacturer based in the UK. The company develops devices used for cardiac surgery and neuromodulation. The company was formed in 2015 by a $2.7B merger...

labs are biplane (have two X-ray sources) and use flat panel detectors. Cardiac catheterization laboratories are usually staffed by a multidisciplinary...

provides cardiac care, diagnostic and treatment procedures in Kathmandu, Nepal. The hospital is named after Gangalal Shrestha. It is the first cardiac tertiary...

anaesthetist whose actions as a whistleblower exposed incompetent paediatric cardiac surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary leading to the implementation of clinical...

tetralogy, is a congenital heart defect characterized by four specific cardiac defects. Classically, the four defects are: Pulmonary stenosis, which is...

remotely in September 2001. In 2003, ZEUS made its most prominent mark in cardiac surgery after successfully harvesting the left internal mammary arteries in...