2024年8月8日 · Open-heart surgery involves cutting open the chest and performing surgery on the heart’s muscles, valves, or arteries. Caring for yourself and your incision after surgery can help...

Open-heart surgery can treat heart problems like heart failure, arrhythmias, aneurysms and coronary artery disease. Open-heart surgery procedures may include CABG (bypass surgery), heart transplant, valve replacement and surgeries to fix issues present at birth.

2024年5月14日 · Open heart surgery involves opening up the chest to repair a fault or damage in the heart, or to replace it. Read on to learn more.

2024年2月13日 · Open heart surgery is a way to treat heart disease. To do it, your doctor opens your chest wall, cuts through your sternum, and spreads your ribs to get access to the heart.

2023年2月14日 · Open heart surgery exposes the heart through a large cut in the chest. Learn how this surgery is performed. Reviewed by our board-certified surgeons.

2016年10月12日 · What is Open Heart Surgery? Traditionally, open heart surgery meant the breastbone being cracked open, providing direct access to the heart, allowing heart surgeons to fix heart problems while the patient is placed on a heart lung machine.

2024年2月16日 · Open-heart surgery is what most people think of when they hear someone say “heart surgery.” Your surgeon makes a 6- to 8-inch-long incision in the middle of your chest and spreads your ribcage to reach your heart.

2020年10月31日 · Open heart surgery is any surgery in which the surgeon cuts open the chest to operate on the heart. Conditions commonly treated with open heart surgery include heart valve disease, birth defects of the heart, and coronary artery disease.