Treatments

Heart Surgeon

Overview

A cardiac surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery on the heart and the major blood vessels around it. A cardiac surgeon can practice in a number of distinct medical disciplines, some of which overlap in their areas of expertise.

What kinds of cardiac surgeons are there?

Generally speaking, cardiac surgeons belong to one of two professional specialties. Even while their practices share many similarities and overlaps, there are a few significant enough distinctions to classify them in various ways.

Surgeon for cardiothoracic

This profession, which is sometimes referred to as general thoracic surgery or cardiothoracic surgery, is named after the Greek word for "chest." Cardiothoracic surgeons, as their name implies, are experts in operating on the majority of the chest's organs and tissues. Surgery affecting the lungs, esophagus (which connects your mouth to your stomach), trachea (windpipe), heart, and major blood vessels might all fall under this category. Certain thoracic surgeons might decide to concentrate solely on disorders affecting the heart, its major blood veins, and the pericardium, a sac that surrounds the heart. Others could decide to concentrate on ailments other than the heart and major blood arteries.

Congenital/pediatric heart surgeon

A pediatric or congenital heart surgeon specializes in fixing an individual's birth defects or structural issues. Heart valve issues, gaps in the walls between the heart's chambers, and other issues can be included in this.

Some surgeons specialize in doing these procedures on children, newborns, and babies, while others concentrate on performing them on adults because it is not unusual for an adult to be diagnosed with a congenital cardiac condition. Compared to those who only operate on adults, pediatric heart surgeons are more common in their highly specialized field.

Diagnostics,

• Such as transesophageal echocardiography 4-D color Doppler
• Computerized stress analysis
• Transcranial Doppler
• Peripheral color doppler
• Ambulatory B.P. monitoring
• Coronary and peripheral angiography
• Holter monitoring

Procedures

• Perirheal angiography
• Coronary angiography
• Electrophysiological investigations
• Complex angioplasties
• Valvotomies are implanted by RF ablation devices

Cardio Thoracic Surgery:

The specialty of cardiothoracic surgery focuses on chest surgery. Numerous surgeries for thoracic and cardiac conditions are carried out at Poona Hospital, including

• CABG
• ASD/VSD/PDA closers
• Valve replacements
• Other congenital heart defects that require surgery
• Device closures, intricate vascular operations, etc.

Heart artery blockages are treated with coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Patients with angina or a history of heart attacks are treated with this. Surgery for a beating heart bypass is done at Poona Hospital.

Additionally, a number of vascular surgery treatments are carried out.