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2. 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 ...

3. Coronary artery bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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   The first uses a cardiopulmonary bypass machine, a machine which takes over the functions of the heart and lungs during surgery by circulating blood and oxygen. With the heart in cardioplegic arrest, harvested arteries and veins are used to connect across problematic regions—a construction known as surgical anastomosis.

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. 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. How Ohio State volleyball player Sarah Sue Morbitzer used NIL ...

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   After being born with tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect, Morbitzer was forced into open-heart surgery at 4 months old, giving her an eight-inch scar across her chest she ...

7. 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 ...