open-heart surgeries
Chest-cracking medical procedures
Open-heart surgeries are surgical procedures performed on the heart while the chest cavity is opened and the heart is exposed.
Typically the heart is stopped and blood circulation maintained by a heart-lung machine.
The term covers bypass surgery, valve repair, and other major cardiac operations: She's had two open-heart surgeries in five years.
- sternotomySurgical cut through breastbone
- angiogramsVascular imaging procedures
- myocardiumMuscular tissue of heart
- chest cavityBody's upper internal chamber
- coronary arteryHeart's own blood supply
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Operations using small cuts
laparoscopic surgery · keyhole surgery · stenting · angioplasty · robotic surgery
open-heart surgeriesmedical management
Non-surgical therapeutic care
watchful waiting · lifestyle modification · palliative care · medication therapy · drug therapy
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