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2. Aortic valve replacement - Wikipedia

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   The surgeon incises the aorta a few milometers above the sinotubular junction (just above the coronary ostia, where the coronary arteries join the aorta) – a process known as aortotomy. After this, cardioplegia is delivered directly through the ostia. [30] [31] The heart is now still and the surgeon removes the patient's diseased aortic valve.

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

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   Open-heart surgery is not, if you’ll pardon the expression, for the faint of heart. In my case, it was an intense, 6-hour operation that ended up repairing a heart that was in worse condition ...

4. Postperfusion syndrome - Wikipedia

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   The filmmaker Andrew Pike experienced pumphead himself, following open-heart surgery in 2011. [8] The film introduces the concept of post-traumatic growth , as a positive psychological change that can follow traumatic experiences such as pumphead.

5. Mitral valve replacement - Wikipedia

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   Following surgery, patients are typically taken to an intensive care unit for monitoring. They may need a respirator to help them breathe for the first few hours or days after surgery. The patient should be able to sit up in bed within 24 hours. After two days, the patient may be moved out of the intensive care unit.

6. What Is Heart Disease? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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   Also known as heart bypass surgery, CABG is a type of open heart surgery that improves blood flow to the heart. During the procedure, a surgeon connects healthy blood vessels from one part of the ...

7. Coronary artery bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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   After harvesting, the pericardium—the sac that surrounds the heart—is opened and stay sutures are placed to keep it open. Purse string sutures are placed in the aorta to prepare the insertions of the cannula into the aorta, and a catheter which temporarily arrests the heart using a solution high in potassium.

8. Arnold Schwarzenegger Provides Update on Open-Heart Surgery ...

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   Arnold Schwarzenegger has provided an update to fans after undergoing open-heart surgery, offering some encouragement that he won’t be away from business for too long. The 76-year-old actor and ...

9. Retrograde autologous priming - Wikipedia

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   The requirement of blood transfusion during open-heart surgical operations is almost inevitable because the metabolism must be continuously kept working through the peripheral blood flow. [4] Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is a medical technique to oxygenate the blood and remove the carbon dioxide during the cardiac operation. [ 4 ]