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2. Cardiothoracic surgery - Wikipedia

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   Cardiac surgery training in the United States is combined with general thoracic surgery and called cardiothoracic surgery or thoracic surgery. A cardiothoracic surgeon in the U.S. is a physician who first completes a general surgery residency (typically 5–7 years), followed by a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship (typically 2–3 years). The ...

3. Cardiothoracic anesthesiology - Wikipedia

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   Fellows are trained to provide perioperative anesthetic management for patients with severe cardiopulmonary pathology. Some of the cardiac surgeries they train for include the following: coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) both on cardiopulmonary bypass as well as on a beating heart, heart valve surgery, aortic reconstruction requiring deep hypothermic arrest, mechanical ventricular assist ...

4. 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 ...

5. Pulmonology - Wikipedia

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   Surgery of the respiratory tract is generally performed by specialists in cardiothoracic surgery [9] (or thoracic surgery), [10] though minor procedures may be performed by pulmonologists. Pulmonology is closely related to critical care medicine [ 11 ] when dealing with patients who require mechanical ventilation.

6. Randolph Chitwood - Wikipedia

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   Chitwood is a native of Wytheville, Virginia.He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and received his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1974. He obtained all of his surgical training at Duke University Medical Center under Dr. David C. Sabiston, where he spent 10 years training in general and cardiothoracic surgery, as well as basic science research.

7. Joseph Lamelas - Wikipedia

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   Lamelas is the Chief of Cardiac surgery and Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. He is board certified in general surgery, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, and surgical critical care, and is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). [5] [6]

8. Interventional cardiology - Wikipedia

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   An alternative to open heart surgery, percutaneous valve repair is performed on the mitral valve using the MONARC system or MitraClip system [7] Coronary thrombectomy Coronary thrombectomy involves the removal of a thrombus (blood clot) from the coronary arteries. [8] Open heart surgery of the heart is performed by a cardiothoracic surgeon ...

9. Lung surgery - Wikipedia

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   Lung surgery is a type of thoracic surgery involving the repair or removal of lung tissue, [1] and can be used to treat a variety of conditions ranging from lung cancer to pulmonary hypertension. Common operations include anatomic and nonanatomic resections, pleurodesis and lung transplants .