Heart surgery is done to correct problems with the heart.Heart surgery is used to correct heart problems in children and adults. The most common type of heart surgery for adults is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). During CABG, surgeons use healthy arteries or veins taken from another part of the body to bypass (that is, go around) blocked arteries. CABG relieves chest pain and reduces the risk of heart attack.

 

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

 

Angioplasty (Also known as Percutaneous Coronary Interventions [PCI], Balloon Angioplasty and Coronary Artery Balloon Dilation)

Special tubing with an attached deflated balloon is threaded up to the coronary arteries. The balloon Is inflated to widen blocked areas where blood flow to the heart muscle has been reduced or cutoff.

 

Laser Angioplasty

Similar to angioplasty except that the catheter has a laser tip that opens the blocked artery. Pulsating beams of light vaporize the plaque buildup.

 

Bypass Surgery (Also known as CABG or “cabbage," Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and Open-Heart Surgery)

Treats blocked heart arteries by creating new passages for blood to flow to your heart muscle. It works by taking arteries or veins from other parts of your body — called grafts — and using them to reroute the blood around the clogged artery. A patient may undergo one, two, three or more bypass grafts, depending on how many coronary arteries are blocked.

 

Artificial Heart Valve Surgery (Also known as Heart Valve Replacement Surgery)

Replaces an abnormal or diseased heart valve with a healthy one.Restores function of the heart valves.

 

Heart Transplant

Removes a diseased heart and replaces it with a healthy human heart when a heart is irreversibly damaged. Uses hearts from organ donation. Recognized as a proven procedure to restore heart health in appropriately selected patients.

 

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