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Cardiothoracic Surgery

Cardiothoracic Surgery

The goal of cardiothoracic surgery is to treat diseases of the heart, lungs, and other pleural or mediastinal structures that affect the organs that are housed within the thoracic cavity by surgery.

Typically, cardiac surgery (which deals with the heart and great vessels) and thoracic surgery are additional divisions of cardiothoracic surgery (involving the lungs, esophagus, thymus, etc.). Cardiothoracic surgeons perform surgery on disorders that affect the skeletal and connective tissues that make up the chest cavity as well as the internal organs of the chest.

  • Coronary artery graft
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Wedge resection
  • Lobectomy
  • Pericardiectomy
  • Septal myectomy
  • Valve replacement
  • Pulmonary tractotomy
  • Bullectomy
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