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cardiac surgery
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surgery on the heart or great vessels
Key facts
- Icd 9 cm
- 35 - 37
- Mesh
- D006348
- Ops 301 code
- 5-35...5-37
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is a surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to correct congenital heart disease; or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes, including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, and atherosclerosis. It also includes heart transplantation.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cardiac surgery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.