Heart Surgery

Cardiac surgery

Each day, thousands of people in the U.S. have heart surgery. 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