Cardiovascular/Thoracic Surgery

The tissue that’s triggering your arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) is scarred or destroyed, preventing abnormal electrical signals from entering the heart. This is usually done via catheter (a long, flexible tube inserted through a vein or artery, which delivers heat or cold to the tissue).

A stent — a small, metal mesh tube — is attached to the wall of your aorta, where the aneurysm is located. The aneurysm will eventually shrink around the stent, and will not be able to bleed out into your body.

The nerves in your chest that cause hyperhidrosis — unusually heavy sweating — are cut, clipped or destroyed.

A filtering device is placed into your vena cava — the large vein that returns blood from your head, neck, and extremities to your heart. It traps clots, keeping them from reaching the heart and lungs. The filter is often used in patients with venous thromboembolism (clots in the veins) to prevent pulmonary embolisms (clots in the lungs).

Angioplasty opens up blocked or narrowed blood vessels that bring blood to your legs. A stent keeps the vessel open. These procedures improve blood flow and can stop achiness or pain in your legs.

Surgeons take an artery from elsewhere in your body, and use it to redirect blood flow from around a blocked artery in your heart. The new pathway improves blood flow to the heart muscle, and reduces your risk of death from heart disease.

Surgery to treat problems of the esophagus (swallowing tube), peripheral vascular system (blood vessels outside of the heart and brain), carotid artery (vessel that brings blood to the face and brain), lung cancer, lung infections and several types of heart disease.