Also called: Cardiac surgery
Each day, thousands of people in the U.S. have heart surgery. There are many different types of heart surgery. Surgeries may be used to
* Repair or replace the valves that control blood flow through the heart's chambers
* Bypass or widen blocked or narrowed arteries to the heart
* Repair aneurysms, or bulges in the aorta, which can be deadly if they burst
* Implant devices to regulate heart rhythms
* Destroy small amounts of tissue that disturb electrical flow through the heart
* Make channels in the heart muscle to allow blood from a heart chamber directly into the heart muscle
* Boost the heart's pumping power with muscles taken from the back or abdomen
* Replace the damaged heart with a heart from a donor
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