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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

The Onassio Cardiac Surgery Centre (Greek: Ωνάσειο Καρδιοχειρουργικό Κέντρο) or simply Onassio (Ωνάσειο) is a model hospital, specialized in adult and...

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...

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

of Cardiac surgery and Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. He is board certified in general surgery, cardiac surgery...

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...

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...

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

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

The Bentall procedure is a type of cardiac surgery involving composite graft replacement of the aortic valve, aortic root, and ascending aorta, with re-implantation...

Cardioplegia is a solution given to the heart during cardiac surgery, to minimize the damage caused by myocardial ischemia while the heart is paused....

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

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...

increasingly for cardiac valve repair and for renal and gynecologic surgical procedures. It was used in an estimated 200,000 surgeries in 2012, most commonly...