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Cardiac surgery/ Heart Surgery

Cardiac surgery/ Heart Surgery is surgery on the heart and/or great vessels performed by a cardiac surgeon.

There are many different types of heart surgery. Surgeries may be used to:

Repair or replace the valves that control blood flow through the heart's chambers
Bypass or widen blocked or narrowed arteries to the heart
Repair aneurysms, or bulges in the aorta, which can be deadly if they burst
Implant devices to regulate heart rhythms
Destroy small amounts of tissue that disturb electrical flow through the heart
Make channels in the heart muscle to allow blood from a heart chamber directly into the heart muscle
Boost the heart's pumping power with muscles taken from the back or abdomen
Replace the damaged heart with a heart from a donor

Traditional heart surgery, often called "open heart surgery", is done by opening the chest wall to operate on the heart. Almost always, the chest is opened by cutting through a patient's breastbone. Once the heart is exposed, the patient is connected to a heart-lung bypass machine. The machine takes over the pumping action of the heart. This allows surgeons to operate on a still heart.
One new way is called off-pump, or beating heart, surgery. It's like traditional open-heart surgery, but it doesn't use a heart-lung bypass machine.

Minimally invasive heart surgery uses smaller incisions (cuts) than traditional open-heart surgery. Some types of minimally invasive heart surgery use a heart-lung bypass machine and others don't.

These new methods may reduce risks and speed up recovery time. Studies are under way to compare these new types of heart surgery to traditional open-heart surgery. The results of these studies will help doctors decide the best procedure to use for each patient.

The results of heart surgery in adults are often excellent. For very ill people with severe heart problems, heart surgery can reduce symptoms, improve quality of life, and increase lifespan.

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