Strong Heart and Vascular Center

Treatment

Surgery - Procedures and Techniques

• Arrhythmia Surgery

• Congenital Heart Surgery

• With deft fingers and technical expertise, H. Todd Massey, MD, performs delicate heart surgery.

  Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) is used to treat a narrowing of the coronary arteries when the blockages are hard to reach or are too long or hard for angioplasty. A blood vessel, usually taken from the leg or chest, is grafted onto the blocked artery, creating a bypass around the blockage. If more than one artery is blocked, a bypass can be done on each.

  • Standard bypass. Open-heart surgery is required for traditional bypass surgery. The heart is stopped during the operation and its function is taken over by a heart-lung machine.

  • Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) is a form of bypass surgery that does not stop the heart or use the heart lung machine. This is a more complicated surgery than
    traditional bypass, but recovery can be faster.

• Endarterectomy
• Open Heart Surgery

• Port Access Surgery

• Heart Transplantation

• Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization (TMLR)

• Heart Valve Replacement and Repair (Valvulotomy)

  • Open-heart surgery is required to replace heart valves. The replacement heart valve be biological or mechanical.

  • Valve repair can be done as open-heart surgery or through minimally invasive techniques depending on the needed repair.