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2. Open aortic surgery - Wikipedia

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   Open aortic surgery (OAS) is used to treat patients with aortic aneurysms greater than 5.5 cm in diameter, to treat aortic rupture of an aneurysm any size, to treat aortic dissections, and to treat acute aortic syndrome. It is used to treat infrarenal aneurysms, as well as juxta- and pararenal aneurysm, thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms ...

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 ...

4. How many lucky breaks do you get when your aorta is about to ...

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   Steve Rosenberg's enlarged aorta is the large gray structure in the center. The heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, is to the right. The right atrium is white.

5. Cardiac surgery - Wikipedia

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   Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is 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 ...

6. Septal myectomy - Wikipedia

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   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 ] The most common alternatives to septal myectomies are treatment with medication (usually beta or calcium blockers ) or non-surgical thinning of tissue with alcohol ablation .

7. Rastelli procedure - Wikipedia

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   The Rastelli procedure is an open heart surgical procedure developed by Italian physician and cardiac surgery researcher, Giancarlo Rastelli, in 1967 at the Mayo Clinic, and involves using a pulmonary or aortic homograft conduit to relieve pulmonary obstruction in double outlet right ventricle with pulmonary stenosis.