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Cardiothoracic surgery
(Redirected from Cardiovascular surgery)
In medicine, the field of (cardio)thoracic surgery or cardiovascular surgery is involved in the surgical treatment of diseases affecting the heart (cardiovascular disease) and lungs (lung disease).
Procedures:
- Heart
- Coronary artery bypass surgery
- Valve replacement
- Congenital heart disease
- Pulmonology
- Mediastinoscopy
- Video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS)
- Lobectomy (e.g. for lung cancer)
- Bullectomy (for a bulla in emphysema)
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