Cardiothoracic Surgery

About Heart & Lung Surgery

Cardiothoracic surgery, the surgical treatment of diseases affecting the heart and lungs, is performed in surgical suites. A specialized surgical team, experienced cardiovascular surgeons.

Check below for more information on our surgical procedures.

About the Program

The Number One Choice

Options for patients with life-threatening heart conditions and diseases. Whether the surgery is traditional open heart surgery, minimally invasive or robot-assisted surgery, depends on the expertise and skills of cardiothoracic surgeons.

Common services and procedures include:

  • Adult Congenital Heart Surgery
  • Atrial or Ventricular Septal Defect Repair (ASD or VSD)
  • Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
  • MAZE Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation>
  • Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)
  • Minimally-invasive Robotic Valve Replacement Surgery
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
  • Lung, Chest, and Esophageal Surgery
  • Video-assisted Thorascopic Surgery (VATS)

Skilled cardiothoracic surgeons work collaboratively with cardiologists, electrophysiologists, interventional radiologists, vascular surgeons, anaesthesiologists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other care specialists to provide comprehensive patient care. Our breadth of experience allows us to perform complex procedures, such as off-pump coronary artery bypass, surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation (MAZE procedure) and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Surgical procedures include:

  • Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG)
    When blood vessels to the heart are narrowed and block the flow of blood and oxygen, a patient may require coronary artery bypass grafting, or CABG. The surgery reroutes a vein from the leg, an artery from the forearm, or an artery that runs under the chest wall, bypassing the blockage to the heart.
  • Valve Surgery
    Diseased heart valves can be repaired or replaced. Whenever possible, it is repaired. The mitral valve is most commonly repaired, the aortic valve is the most commonly replaced valve.
    Minimally invasive heart valve surgery enables a surgeon to replace or repair a valve using smaller incisions on the side of the chest. This results in less bleeding, lower wound complication rates, less pain, shorter hospital stay, and allows the patient to return to their normal activities in much less time.
    The valve operation is the same as when performed through the traditional sternotomy approach but just through a different incision.
  • Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
    Atrial ablation is a heart surgery performed in isolation or at the same time as a coronary artery bypass grafting or valve surgery. Surgeons use an energy source to neutralize electrical pathways in the heart that trigger the atrial fibrillation.
  • Lung Cancer Surgery
    Lobectomy, a surgical procedure to remove the tumor and the section of the lung in which the tumor is located, is the most common surgical procedure performed for lung cancer. During the procedure additional lymph nodes will be removed to determine whether or not the disease has spread.
    A less invasive surgical approach, called video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery or VATS, is appropriate for some patients. It enables the surgeon to remove the section of the lung where the tumor is located through a smaller incision, providing patients with less pain, fewer complications and faster recovery.

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