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Balloon Angioplasty and Stents
Coronary artery disease (CAD) affects more than 15 million Americans, making it the most common form of heart disease. CAD...
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A Heart Surgery Overview
Two major advances in medicine made heart surgery possible: The heart-lung machine, which takes over the work of the heart. Body cooling techniques, which allow more time for surgery without causing brain damage.
Radial Artery Access
Cardiac catheterization is a method doctors use to perform many tests and procedures for diagnosing and treating coronary artery disease. The method...
Ventricular Assist Devices
The lower chambers of the heart are called the ventricles. The lower-left chamber is called the left ventricle, and it...
Pacemakers
Electrical impulses from the heart muscle cause your heart to beat (contract). This electrical signal begins in the sinoatrial (SA)...
Vascular Access for Hemodialysis
Before you can begin hemodialysis, there needs to be a way to remove the blood from the body (a few ounces at a time) and then return it. Your arteries and veins are usually too small, so surgery is done to create a vascular access site.
Valve Repair or Replacement
Blood is pumped through your heart in only one direction. Heart valves play a key role in this one-way blood...
Maze Surgery
Electrical impulses in your heart muscle (the myocardium) cause your heart to beat (contract). This electrical signal begins in the...
Limited-Access Heart Surgery
Thousands of heart surgeries are performed every day in the United States. In fact, in a recent year, surgeons performed...
Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization
Like every other organ or tissue in your body, the heart muscle needs oxygen-rich blood to survive. The heart gets...
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
Watch & Share on Texas Heart TV Any irregularity in your heart’s natural rhythm is called an arrhythmia. Almost everyone’s...
Heart Transplantation
Introduction The key to the program’s success is an experienced, highly skilled transplant team that includes surgeons, cardiologists, nurses, operating...
