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2. Minimally invasive cardiac surgery - Wikipedia

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   OPCAB voids the use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), which requires the heart to be stopped (arrested) with cardioplegia solution. Off-pump is also known as beating heart surgery. [citation needed] Minimally invasive heart surgery has been used as an alternative to traditional surgery for the following procedures: Coronary artery bypass

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. 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. Ordinarily, septal myectomies ...

5. Off-pump coronary artery bypass - Wikipedia

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   Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB), or beating-heart surgery, is a form of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery performed without cardiopulmonary bypass (heart-lung machine) as a treatment for coronary heart disease. It was primarily developed in the early 1990s by Dr. Amano Atsushi.

6. Robotic surgery is evolving. Here's what that means for patients.

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   Surgery is gradually becoming more mechanized In 1985, doctors used the PUMA system to perform neurosurgical biopsies, taking samples of peoples' brains so doctors could study tumors—an ...

7. Mitral valve replacement - Wikipedia

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   Mitral valve replacement is a procedure whereby the diseased mitral valve of a patient's heart is replaced by either a mechanical or tissue (bioprosthetic) valve. The mitral valve may need to be replaced because: [citation needed] The valve is leaky (mitral valve regurgitation) The valve is narrowed and doesn't open properly (mitral valve stenosis)

8. Arnold Schwarzenegger Details His Challenging Recovery From ...

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   Arnold Schwarzenegger is reflecting on a particularly challenging time in his life when he had unplanned open heart surgery, and had only a matter of months to recover and be back to top form.. In ...

9. Transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement - Wikipedia

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   The heart is typically reached by passing through the femoral vein, jugular vein, or subclavian vein. [4] A balloon dilation test is performed first, to confirm that coronary compression will not occur and the procedure can continue. [4] [6] Stent fractures can be prevented by using pre-stenting, using a bare metal stent before TPVR. [5]