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2. Cardiac surgery - Wikipedia

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   Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is a surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to correct congenital heart disease; or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes, including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, [1] and ...

3. How a Surprising Diagnosis from My Cardiologist Led to Open ...

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   Preparing for open-heart surgery Before I could go under the knife, I had to undergo a series of pre-surgery exams, from an ultrasound to a CT scan to blood work to an intensive catheter procedure ...

4. Baby undergoes open heart surgery during delivery - AOL

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   In this case, while the baby was mid-delivery, doctors needed to perform open-heart surgery, fixing the communication between the baby's two sides of the heart, and then continue with delivery.

5. Commissurotomy - Wikipedia

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   Illustration demonstrating an open-heart surgery to repair a mitral valve that is narrowed from mitral valve stenosis. [ edit on Wikidata ] A commissurotomy ( / ˌ k ɒ m ə ʃ ər ˈ ɒ t ə m i / ) is a surgical incision of a commissure in the body, as one made in the heart at the edges of the commissure formed by cardiac valves , or one made ...

6. Septal myectomy - Wikipedia

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   Septal myectomy is a cardiac surgery treatment for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). [1] The open-heart surgery entails removing a portion of the septum that is obstructing the flow of blood from the left ventricle to the aorta. [2]

7. LeCompte maneuver - Wikipedia

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   The LeCompte maneuver is a technique used in open heart surgery, primarily on infants and children.The maneuver entails cutting the main pulmonary artery and moving it anterior to the aorta before reattaching the pulmonary artery during the following reconstruction of the great vessels.