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cardiac surgery
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surgery on the heart or great vessels
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Vinony's link graph records 1,910 inbound references to cardiac surgery, and connects out to coronary artery disease, congenital heart disease and ventricle of the heart.
It is catalogued under the topic Cardiac surgery.
Vinony links it to 49 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Icd 9 cm
- 35 - 37
- Mesh
- D006348
- Ops 301 code
- 5-35...5-37
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic discipline
- Subclass of
- thoracic surgery
- Part of
- thoracic surgery
- Image
- Coronary artery bypass surgery Image 657B-PH.jpg
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- practiced by
- cardiac surgeon
- topic's main category
- Category:Cardiac surgery
- Commons category
- Cardiac surgery
- OpenStreetMap tag
- healthcare:speciality=cardiac_surgery
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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.